Dialogue

 1 Lache|  children, because they do not know the danger. Against this
 2 Lache|        own, opinion. But as we know that you are good judges,
 3 Lache|        used to his ways; and I know that he will certainly do
 4 Lache|   learn of me anything which I know. So high is the opinion
 5 Lache|     and Laches what we want to know, for the sake of the youths,
 6 Lache|         then, clearly, we must know how that about which we
 7 Lache|       then, clearly, we should know the nature of sight, and
 8 Lache|         Then must we not first know the nature of virtue? For
 9 Lache|         we may presume that we know the nature of virtue?~LACHES:
10 Lache|    SOCRATES: And that which we know we must surely be able to
11 Lache| meaning. For I fancy that I do know the nature of courage; but,
12 Lache|    question: Do not physicians know the dangers of disease?
13 Lache|  disease? or do the courageous know them? or are the physicians
14 Lache|        than the husbandmen who know the dangers of husbandry,
15 Lache|     sick bed? I should like to know whether you think that life
16 Lache|        who but one of them can know to whom to die or to live
17 Lache|        the soothsayer ought to know the grounds of hope or fear?~
18 Lache|        the soothsayer ought to know only the signs of things
19 Lache|    thing which every pig would know, as the proverb says, and
20 Lache|        a few human beings ever know by reason of their difficulty.
21 Lache|        no dangers because they know none? There is a difference,
22 Lache| possess them all, and he would know which were dangers and which
23 Lache|  provide the good, as he would know how to deal both with gods
24 Lache|       good for anything should know, that, I suppose, will be