The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
Brave men are brave from the very first.
Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.
Whither depart the souls of the brave that die in the battle, Die in the lost, lost fight, for the cause that perishes with them?
The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.
Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.
In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.