I could almost swear that Africanus, with whom we are better acquainted, from our recollection of him being more recent, was noways inflamed by anger when he covered Alienus Pelignus with his shield, and drove his sword into the enemy's breast.

There may be some doubt of L.Brutus, whether he was not influenced by extraordinary hatred of the tyrant, so as to attack Aruns with more than usual rashness; for I observe that they mutually killed each other in close fight.

Why, then, do you call in the assistance of anger?
Would courage, unless it began to get furious, lose its energy?
What! do you imagine that Hercules, whom the very courage which you would try to represent as anger raised to heaven, was angry when he engaged the Erymanthian boar, or the Nemaean lion?
Or was Theseus in a passion when he seized on the horns of the Marathonian bull?
Take care how you make courage to depend in the least on rage.

For anger is altogether irrational, and that is not courage which is void of reason.
XXIII.

We ought to hold all things here in contempt; death is to be looked on with indifference; pains and labors must be considered as easily supportable.