Of courage and its different forms: _military courage_; _civic courage_; _patience_, _moderation_ in prosperity; _equanimity_, etc. Of anger and its different kinds.--Generous anger. Duty of _personal dignity_.--_Respect for one's self._ _True pride_ and _false pride_.--Of a _just esteem of one's self_.--Of _modesty_. =Duties relative to sentiment.=--Have we any duties in regard to our sensibilities?--Kant's objection: no one can love at will. Reply.--To distinguish _sensibility_ from _sentimentality_. =157. Duties relative to the will.--Strength of soul.=--One may justly ask whether there are any duties relating particularly to the will: for it would seem that all duties are generally duties of the will. There is no one that does not require the control of the will over the inclinations; and if we say that it is a duty to cultivate and exercise this control, is it not as if we said that it is a duty to learn to do our duty? But why could we not also suppose a third duty, commanding us to observe the former, and so _ad infinitum_? We may then say that the duty to exercise one's will and triumph over the passions, is nothing more than duty _per se_, the duty _par excellence_, of which all the other duties are but parts. This virtue, by which the soul commands its passions and does not allow itself to be subjugated by any of them, may be called courage or strength of soul. Courage thus understood is not only a virtue; it is virtue itself.[121] In fact, what is temperance, if it is not a certain kind of courage before the pleasures of the senses? what economy, if not courage before the temptations of fortune? what veracity, if not the courage to tell the truth under all circumstances? what justice and benevolence, if not the courage to sacrifice self-interest to the interest of others? We have already (page 87) made a similar observation in regard to prudence and wisdom, namely, that virtue in general is both wisdom and courage: for it presupposes at the same time strength and light. As strength, it is courage, energy, greatness of soul; as light, it is prudence and wisdom. All special virtues would, then, strictly speaking, be only factors, or component parts, of those two.