Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue…

C. S. Lewis
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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality. A chastity or honesty or mercy which yields to danger will be chaste or honest or merciful only on conditions. Pilate was merciful till it became risky. ✨ In Cyril Connolly 'The Unquiet Grave' (1944) ch. 31
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