Dialogue

 1 Lache|       this universal courage is endurance. But courage is a good thing,
 2 Lache|       is a good thing, and mere endurance may be hurtful and injurious.
 3 Lache|        then again unintelligent endurance may often be more courageous
 4 Lache|    endure’ in an argument about endurance. Laches is very willing,
 5 Lache|       that courage is a sort of endurance of the soul, if I am to
 6 Lache|   cannot say that every kind of endurance is, in my opinion, to be
 7 Lache|       you would say that a wise endurance is also good and noble?~
 8 Lache|      would you say of a foolish endurance? Is not that, on the other
 9 Lache|    would not admit that sort of endurance to be courage— for it is
10 Lache| according to you, only the wise endurance is courage?~LACHES: True.~
11 Lache|        man shows the quality of endurance in spending his money wisely,
12 Lache|       surely, this is a foolish endurance in comparison with the other?~
13 Lache|        But foolish boldness and endurance appeared before to be base
14 Lache|         saying that the foolish endurance, which was before held in
15 Lache|      SOCRATES: The principle of endurance. We too must endure and
16 Lache|        all may, very likely, be endurance.~LACHES: I am ready to go