In this brief monologue, the speaker argues that true courage inherently involves sacrifice. They assert that courage must exact a price; without a cost, an act cannot be genuinely courageous. The speaker emphasizes that the necessity of paying a price is what defines courage, even if one may not be aware of the exact cost at the moment.
It's very hard to sacrifice, to hold something, to be courageous and not sacrifice. It's very hard to do that. Some price is paid for courage. If no price were paid for courage, then it wouldn't take courage. That's the whole point. If courage doesn't exact a price, it's not terribly courageous. I mean, it's still courageous because you don't know that it won't exact a price.
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