Let us get to know one aspect of Martius, the protagonist of the Coriolanus tragedy: Martius was a soldier who did noble service to his country. Yet to preserve honour is a virtue no less than to win it. A man must gather no more stones than his palm may hold, for in clutching one, another is lost. Let it be known that an excess of happiness breeds arrogance; and arrogance clouds judgment, silences self-rebuke, and makes a man his own idol. Martius was valiant. His valour brought him days of for ...