To run all kinds of hazards, to jeopardize one's self, to rush into the jaws of death-these are too often identified with Valor, and in the profession of arms such rashness of conduct-what Shakespeare calls, "valor misbegot"-is unjustly applauded; but not so in the Precepts of Knighthood.
"Bushido, the Soul of Japan"
Inazo Nitobé