Article 1. Whether daring is a sin?
Daring is a passion. Passion is sometimes moderated according to reason and sometimes it isn't, either by excess or by deficiency, on this account daring is sinful.
Article 2. Whether daring is opposed to fortitude?
Moral virtue observes the rational mean in the matter about which it is concerned. Every vice that shows lack of moderation in the matter of a moral virtue is opposed to that virtue.
http://www.newadvent.org/summa/3127.htm
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