So the tolerant need a full complement of the moral virtues to act in accord with their character, above all patience and perseverance, two virtues that belong to courage. Courage enables us to endure dangers to life and limb that are present and unavoidable and that would be unwise or impossible to attack or confront. It moderates those fears that would otherwise have us flee these circumstances, and it enables us “to stand immovable in the midst of [these] dangers, not attacking, but not retreating or cowering either {ST II- II.123.6). On Aquinas’s rendering, courage, like justice, has parts, virtues annexed to it. Some are so integral to its work that the courageous cannot act as they should, with the perfection that distinguishes their character, without the assistance they provide {ST II-II.128). Others are potential parts because they regard certain minor hardships. Not all dangers are deadly, nor every difficulty extreme, and yet these lesser troubles must also be confronted, not with the full perfection of courage, but through the offices these lesser parts. It is here, among these second string perfections, that we find the patience and perseverance that tolerance requires {ST II-II.128; 136.4.1; 137.1-2).3332 Here I follow Aquinas’s treatment of moral weakness, 5T I-I1.77.2 and ad 1-5.foot33 Thomas concedes that, at times, the courageous must endure and persevere in order to respond well to deadly dangers and extreme hardships. For this reason, we will also find patience and perseverance among the integral parts of courage {ST II-II.128 and ad 4-5).