To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

To perceive is to suffer.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

I have no fear nor shrinking; I have seen death so often that it is not strange or fearful to me.

If I am to be killed, let Adolf do it himself!

So he died, because for a split second he got brave. But not then. He died much later, after the split second of bravery had faded into long hours of wretched …