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It must not be thought but that the End and object of Courage is

pleasant, but it is obscured by the surrounding circumstances:

which happens also in the gymnastic games; to the boxers the End

is pleasant with a view to which they act, I mean the crown and

the honours; but the receiving the blows they do is painful and

annoying to flesh and blood, and so is all the labour they have

to undergo; and, as these drawbacks are many, the object in view

being small appears to have no pleasantness in it.