Dialogue

 1 Lache|     coward rash, and subject the courageous, if he chance to make a
 2 Lache|        he knows this: (1) ‘He is courageous who remains at his post.’
 3 Lache|      endurance may often be more courageous than the intelligent, the
 4 Lache|       although their actions are courageous. Still they must ‘endure’
 5 Lache|        really terrible; only the courageous man can tell that.’ Laches
 6 Lache|     draws the inference that the courageous man is either a soothsayer
 7 Lache|       way of speaking, the term ‘courageous’ must be denied to animals
 8 Lache|    explain; you would call a man courageous who remains at his post,
 9 Lache|    soldier; and not only who are courageous in war, but who are courageous
10 Lache|   courageous in war, but who are courageous in perils by sea, and who
11 Lache|        or again in politics, are courageous; and not only who are courageous
12 Lache| courageous; and not only who are courageous against pain or fear, but
13 Lache|      SOCRATES: And all these are courageous, but some have courage in
14 Lache|         the end, do you call him courageous?~LACHES: Assuredly not.~
15 Lache|          horsemanship, is not so courageous as he who endures, having
16 Lache|         any other art, is not so courageous as he who endures, not having
17 Lache|           as you would say, more courageous than those who have this
18 Lache|    dangers of disease? or do the courageous know them? or are the physicians
19 Lache|       physicians the same as the courageous?~NICIAS: Not at all.~LACHES:
20 Lache|       arts, and yet they are not courageous a whit the more for that.~
21 Lache|         hope? And him I call the courageous.~SOCRATES: Do you understand
22 Lache|    speaking, the soothsayers are courageous. For who but one of them
23 Lache|         neither a soothsayer nor courageous?~NICIAS: What! do you mean
24 Lache|  Socrates; for he represents the courageous man as neither a soothsayer,
25 Lache|        not; and they will not be courageous unless they acquire it—that
26 Lache|        therefore he could not be courageous.~NICIAS: I think not.~SOCRATES:
27 Lache|       sow would be called by you courageous. And this I say not as a
28 Lache|     allow that any wild beast is courageous, unless he admits that a
29 Lache|         which we all admit to be courageous, are really wiser than mankind;
30 Lache|       they are ignorant of them, courageous, but only fearless and senseless.
31 Lache|      should call little children courageous, which fear no dangers because
32 Lache|       general, call by the term ‘courageous’ actions which I call rash;—
33 Lache|    actions which I call rash;—my courageous actions are wise actions.~
34 Lache|         world acknowledges to be courageous.~NICIAS: Not so, Laches,
35 Lache|          Athenians, that you are courageous and therefore wise.~LACHES: