Editing Courage (section)

=== Western traditions ===
In ''De Officiis Ministrorum'', [[Ambrose]] echoes Cicero in holding reservations regarding those who exhibit courage without yet having demonstrated a general moral balance.<ref>{{cite book|author-last1=Tierney|author-first1= Brian|author-last2=Painter|author-first2=Sidney|year=1983|chapter=The Christian Church|title=Western Europe in the Middle Ages, 300–1475|edition=4th|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=Alfred A Knopf|isbn=9780394330600}}</ref> Ambrose held that fortitude without justice occasions injustice; since the stronger a man is the more ready to oppress the weaker.<ref>{{cite book|author=Ambrose of Milan|title=De Officiis Ministrorum|at=I.35.176}}</ref>

Courage is a natural virtue which Saint Augustine did not consider a virtue for Christians.{{dubious|reason=De Moribus Ecclesiae Catholicae xv, xxi, xxii|date=July 2023}}