Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues

We have next to consider the formal definition of virtue.

If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions of the soul implying a rational principle, and the function of a good man to be the good and noble performance of these, and if any action is well performed when it is performed in accordance with the appropriate excellence human good turns out to be activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, and if there are more than one virtue, in accordance with the best and most complete.

The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

It has been handed down in mythical form from earliest times to posterity, that there are gods, and that the divine (Deity) compasses all nature. All beside this has been added, after the mythical style, for the purpose of persuading the multitude, and for the interests of the laws, and the advantage of the state.