Dialogue

 1 Lache|      replies, ‘Intelligence of things terrible.’ ‘But every man
 2 Lache|        But every man knows the things to be dreaded in his own
 3 Lache| explained to mean knowledge of things terrible in the future.
 4 Lache|        those who have, in some things?~SOCRATES: Yes, Laches,
 5 Lache|        grow old, learning many things.’ But I must be allowed
 6 Lache|    wise,’—wise in what? In all things small as well as great?
 7 Lache|       of those who do the same things, having the skill to do
 8 Lache|        you think that the same things are terrible to those who
 9 Lache|      to know only the signs of things that are about to come to
10 Lache|      or not suffering of these things will be for the best, can
11 Lache|        of wisdom that he knows things which but a few human beings
12 Lache|      call animals or any other things which have no fear of dangers,
13 Lache|        and the hopeful are the things which do or do not create
14 Lache|     view, Nicias; the terrible things, as I should say, are the
15 Lache|       are the good or not evil things which are future. Do you
16 Lache|     And the knowledge of these things you call courage?~NICIAS:
17 Lache|      understanding of the same things, whether future, present,
18 Lache|        has to do with the same things in the future or at any
19 Lache|        equally ignorant of the things which a man who is good
20 Lache|       for certainly I would do things for him which I would not