Dialogue

 1 Lache|      endurance. But courage is a good thing, and mere endurance
 2 Lache|    intelligent, the bad than the good. How is this contradiction
 3 Lache|        be no knowledge of future good or evil separated from a
 4 Lache|          from a knowledge of the good and evil of the past or
 5 Lache|           that is to say, of all good and evil. Courage, therefore,
 6 Lache|   therefore, is the knowledge of good and evil generally. But
 7 Lache|         who has the knowledge of good and evil generally, must
 8 Lache|          as we know that you are good judges, and will say exactly
 9 Lache|        knowledge appears to be a good: and if, as Nicias and as
10 Lache| Lysimachus, I have encountered a good many of these gentlemen
11 Lache|          as I imagine,—because a good decision is based on knowledge
12 Lache|          and which of us has had good teachers?~LACHES: Well but,
13 Lache|      have become under your care good and noble? For if this is
14 Lache|        be allowed to add ‘of the good only.’ Socrates must be
15 Lache|    willing to allow that he is a good teacher, or I shall be a
16 Lache|        is, we should not be very good medical advisers about the
17 Lache|       about that.~SOCRATES: Very good, Laches; and yet I fear
18 Lache|         a wise endurance is also good and noble?~LACHES: Very
19 Lache|      dear friend, should not the good sportsman follow the track,
20 Lache|       you say that ‘Every man is good in that in which he is wise,
21 Lache|    therefore if the brave man is good, he is also wise.~SOCRATES:
22 Lache|         both of us.~LACHES: Very good.~SOCRATES: Then tell me,
23 Lache|          the gods, that is truly good. And I hope, Nicias, that
24 Lache|          and the hopeful are the good or not evil things which
25 Lache|          concerned not only with good and evil of the future,
26 Lache|          to include nearly every good and evil without reference
27 Lache|        friend, if a man knew all good and evil, and how they are,
28 Lache|         and he would provide the good, as he would know how to
29 Lache|        things which a man who is good for anything should know,
30 Lache|       says, that~‘Modesty is not good for a needy man.’~Let us