The Apology
    Part
  1 Text |          be superior in wisdom and courage, and any other virtue, demean


Cratylus
    Part
  2 Intro|        rejoins, he should have the courage to acknowledge that letters
  3 Text |           we have as yet discussed courage (andreia),—injustice (adikia),
  4 Text |          to justice, for otherwise courage would not have been praised.
  5 Text |        Then fear not, but have the courage to admit that one name may


Crito
    Part
  6 Text |            entirely to our want of courage. The trial need never have


Euthydemus
    Part
  7 Text |           disconcerted, said: Take courage, Cleinias, and answer like
  8 Text |            of temperance, justice, courage: do you not verily and indeed


The First Alcibiades
    Part
  9 Text |         ought to save; and this is courage?~ALCIBIADES: True.~SOCRATES:
 10 Text |             Yes.~SOCRATES: And the courage which is shown in the rescue
 11 Text |        were acknowledging that the courage which is shown in the rescue
 12 Text |            honourable? Now is this courage good or evil? Look at the
 13 Text |    SOCRATES: What would you say of courage? At what price would you
 14 Text |          willing to be deprived of courage?~ALCIBIADES: I would rather
 15 Text |             SOCRATES: And life and courage are the extreme opposites
 16 Text |         because you think life and courage the best, and death and
 17 Text |          honourable, in as much as courage does a good work?~ALCIBIADES:
 18 Text |          grace and magnanimity and courage and endurance and love of


Gorgias
    Part
 19 Intro|            same, but knowledge and courage are not the same either
 20 Intro|       objections by distinguishing courage and knowledge from pleasure
 21 Text |            greatest he should have courage and intelligence to minister
 22 Text |         saying just now, that some courage implied knowledge?~CALLICLES:
 23 Text |           And you were speaking of courage and knowledge as two things
 24 Text |             And would you say that courage differed from pleasure?~
 25 Text |             but that knowledge and courage are not the same, either


Laches
    Part
 26 Intro|            use of weapons—‘What is Courage?’ Laches thinks that he
 27 Intro|   definition, not only of military courage, but of courage of all sorts,
 28 Intro|           military courage, but of courage of all sorts, tried both
 29 Intro|        replies that this universal courage is endurance. But courage
 30 Intro|          courage is endurance. But courage is a good thing, and mere
 31 Intro|            sure that he knows what courage is, if he could only tell.~
 32 Intro|            to the effect that (1) ‘Courage is intelligence.’ Laches
 33 Intro|            a compliment to his own courage. Still, he does not like
 34 Intro|     Socrates resumes the argument. Courage has been defined to be intelligence
 35 Intro|     knowledge of the terrible; and courage is not all virtue, but only
 36 Intro|         say, of all good and evil. Courage, therefore, is the knowledge
 37 Intro|      generally, must not only have courage, but also temperance, justice,
 38 Intro|         ignorance of the nature of courage. They must go to school
 39 Intro|           of the Dialogue—‘What is Courage?’ the antagonism of the
 40 Intro|           that there was any other courage than that of the soldier;
 41 Intro|            Socratic doctrine, that courage is knowledge. This is explained
 42 Intro|       distinguishing the nature of courage. In this part of the Dialogue
 43 Intro|         result. The two aspects of courage are never harmonized. The
 44 Intro|       intimations of the nature of courage are allowed to appear: (
 45 Intro|        allowed to appear: (1) That courage is moral as well as physical: (
 46 Intro|            physical: (2) That true courage is inseparable from knowledge,
 47 Intro|      Laches exhibits one aspect of courage; Nicias the other. The perfect
 48 Text |                         LACHES, OR COURAGE~PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE:
 49 Text |            generally thought to be courage?~LACHES: Yes, certainly.~
 50 Text |          determining the nature of courage, and in the second place
 51 Text |            me, if you can, what is courage.~LACHES: Indeed, Socrates,
 52 Text |          answering; he is a man of courage who does not run away, but
 53 Text |         ask you not only about the courage of heavy-armed soldiers,
 54 Text |            soldiers, but about the courage of cavalry and every other
 55 Text |       enemy. There is this sort of courage—is there not, Laches?~LACHES:
 56 Text |          courageous, but some have courage in pleasures, and some in
 57 Text |             Now I was asking about courage and cowardice in general.
 58 Text |     general. And I will begin with courage, and once more ask, What
 59 Text |         cases, and which is called courage? Do you now understand what
 60 Text |            quality which is called courage, and which includes all
 61 Text |          LACHES: I should say that courage is a sort of endurance of
 62 Text |           my opinion, to be deemed courage. Hear my reason: I am sure,
 63 Text |            that you would consider courage to be a very noble quality.~
 64 Text |            sort of endurance to be courage— for it is not noble, but
 65 Text |           for it is not noble, but courage is noble?~LACHES: You are
 66 Text |         only the wise endurance is courage?~LACHES: True.~SOCRATES:
 67 Text |          firm and refuses; is that courage?~LACHES: No; that is not
 68 Text |            LACHES: No; that is not courage at all, any more than the
 69 Text |            true.~SOCRATES: Whereas courage was acknowledged to be a
 70 Text |       before held in dishonour, is courage.~LACHES: Very true.~SOCRATES:
 71 Text |          one would say that we had courage who saw us in action, but
 72 Text |         who heard us talking about courage just now.~LACHES: That is
 73 Text |           in the enquiry, and then courage will not laugh at our faint-heartedness
 74 Text | faint-heartedness in searching for courage; which after all may, very
 75 Text |            I do know the nature of courage; but, somehow or other,
 76 Text |            us what you think about courage.~NICIAS: I have been thinking,
 77 Text |            Laches are not defining courage in the right way; for you
 78 Text |         appears to me to mean that courage is a sort of wisdom.~LACHES:
 79 Text |          mean to say, Laches, that courage is the knowledge of that
 80 Text |        Laches?~LACHES: Why, surely courage is one thing, and wisdom
 81 Text |            you mean to affirm that courage is the knowledge of the
 82 Text |     assents to your doctrine, that courage is the knowledge of the
 83 Text |          He who takes your view of courage must affirm that a lion,
 84 Text |      equally little pretensions to courage.~LACHES: Capital, Socrates;
 85 Text |   universal opinion, to deny their courage.~NICIAS: Why, Laches, I
 86 Text |           between fearlessness and courage. I am of opinion that thoughtful
 87 Text |            opinion that thoughtful courage is a quality possessed by
 88 Text |           deprive of the honour of courage those whom all the world
 89 Text |           in Nicias’ definition of courage is worthy of examination.~
 90 Text |           we originally considered courage to be a part of virtue.~
 91 Text |         parts of virtue as well as courage. Would you not say the same?~
 92 Text |           of these things you call courage?~NICIAS: Precisely.~SOCRATES:
 93 Text |          my opinion.~SOCRATES: And courage, my friend, is, as you say,
 94 Text |            is true.~SOCRATES: Then courage is not the science which
 95 Text |          for they are future only; courage, like the other sciences,
 96 Text |      includes only a third part of courage; but our question extended
 97 Text |    extended to the whole nature of courage: and according to your view,
 98 Text |    according to your present view, courage is not only the knowledge
 99 Text |        SOCRATES: But then, Nicias, courage, according to this new definition
100 Text |            But we were saying that courage is one of the parts of virtue?~
101 Text |           have not discovered what courage is.~NICIAS: We have not.~
102 Text |         ignorance of the nature of courage, but you look only to see


Laws
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103 1    |           wisdom, when united with courage, are better than courage
104 1    |           courage, are better than courage only; for a man cannot be
105 1    |            union of these two with courage springs justice, and fourth
106 1    |          in the scale of virtue is courage. All these naturally take
107 1    |        first consider the habit of courage; and then we will go on
108 1    |         But how ought we to define courage? Is it to be regarded only
109 1    |          have not legislated for a courage which is lame of one leg,
110 1    |     intended to discuss (for after courage comes temperance), what
111 1    |   promotion both of temperance and courage.~Athenian. There seems to
112 1    |            this principle apply to courage only, and must he who would
113 1    |            legislator as a test of courage? Might we not go and say
114 1    |           have a touchstone of the courage and cowardice of your citizens?”~
115 1    |          soul: first, the greatest courage; secondly, the greatest
116 1    |           But now, as the habit of courage and fearlessness is to be
117 2    |            require both wisdom and courage; the true judge must not
118 2    |         preeminent in strength and courage, and has the gift of immortality,
119 2    |         sings; and he would honour courage everywhere, but always as
120 3    |            in their nature, and to courage, when they had the element
121 3    |            they had the element of courage. And they would naturally
122 3    |           Athenian. I suppose that courage is a part of virtue?~Megillus.
123 5    |      foolish life, and the life of courage than the life of cowardice;
124 7    |            of cowardice and not of courage.~Cleinias. No doubt.~Athenian.
125 7    |          said to be an exercise of courage.~Cleinias. True.~Athenian.
126 7    |            and that which tends to courage, may be fairly called manly;
127 7    |      advantages, infuses a sort of courage into the minds of the citizens.
128 7    |            orderly and has learned courage from discipline he waves
129 8    |            who has and who has not courage; and that the honour and
130 8    |            is seduced the habit of courage, or in the soul of the seducer
131 8    |            respects temperance and courage and magnanimity and wisdom,
132 8    |            Athenian. And had they; courage to abstain from what is
133 10   |      Certainly.~Athenian. Yes; and courage is a part of virtue, and
134 11   |            state, whether by their courage or by their military skill;—
135 12   |          call one; for we say that courage is virtue, and that prudence
136 12   |          of as two, one part being courage and the other wisdom. I
137 12   |        quite young children—I mean courage; for a courageous temper
138 12   |          which we are now speaking—courage, temperance, wisdom, justice?~
139 12   |         the same, as we affirm, in courage and in temperance, and in


Lysis
    Part
140 Intro|          may restore the necessary courage and composure to the paralysed
141 Text |          hesitated and had not the courage to come alone; but first


Meno
    Part
142 Intro|         are other virtues, such as courage, temperance, and the like;
143 Intro|          the particular virtues of courage, liberality, and the like.
144 Intro|           is temperance?’ ‘what is courage?’ as in the Lysis, Charmides,
145 Text |     figures if you asked me.~MENO: Courage and temperance and wisdom
146 Text |           are temperance, justice, courage, quickness of apprehension,
147 Text |          hurtful; as, for example, courage wanting prudence, which
148 Text |           no sense he is harmed by courage, but when he has sense he


Phaedo
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149 Text |             he replied.~And is not courage, Simmias, a quality which
150 Text |            Most assuredly.~For the courage and temperance of other
151 Text |            bought or sold, whether courage or temperance or justice.
152 Text |       temperance, and justice, and courage, and wisdom herself are
153 Text |          and listened. I like your courage, he said, in reminding us
154 Text |       temperance, and justice, and courage, and nobility, and truth—


Phaedrus
    Part
155 Text |          the other, not having the courage to confess the truth, and
156 Text |          fellow-steed, for want of courage and manhood, declaring that


Philebus
    Part
157 Text |         soul is pleasure; and that courage or temperance or understanding,


Protagoras
    Part
158 Intro|           contends that the fifth, courage, is unlike the rest. Socrates
159 Intro|     admitted. Then, says Socrates, courage is knowledge—an inference
160 Intro|          conclusion to the case of courage—the only virtue which still
161 Intro|         terrible and not terrible. Courage then is knowledge, and cowardice
162 Text |         would not deny, then, that courage and wisdom are also parts
163 Text |           or like justice, or like courage, or like temperance, or
164 Text |          wisdom and temperance and courage and justice and holiness
165 Text |            fifth of them, which is courage, is very different from
166 Text |  nevertheless remarkable for their courage.~Stop, I said; I should
167 Text |          In that case, he replied, courage would be a base thing, for
168 Text |          view again wisdom will be courage.~Nay, Socrates, he replied,
169 Text |          then led on to think that courage is the same as wisdom. But
170 Text |            I say of confidence and courage, that they are not the same;
171 Text |           by madness and rage; but courage comes to them from nature
172 Text |         helping us to discover how courage is related to the other
173 Text |          that the fifth, which was courage, differed greatly from the
174 Text |      courageous; which proves that courage is very different from the
175 Text |           you call it cowardice or courage?~I should say cowardice,
176 Text |          nodded assent.~But surely courage, I said, is opposed to cowardice?~
177 Text |            and is not dangerous is courage, and is opposed to the ignorance
178 Text |       justice, and temperance, and courage,— which tends to show that


The Republic
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179 2    |           force is required by his courage and strength, and command
180 3    |           fortunate, the strain of courage, and the strain of temperance;
181 3    |     essential forms of temperance, courage, liberality, magnificence,
182 3    |       rightly educated, would give courage, but, if too much intensified,
183 3    |          are men of temperance and courage; they should agree to receive
184 4    |            in seeing the nature of courage, and in what part that quality
185 4    |         may be cowardly, but their courage or cowardice will not, as
186 4    |          and this is what you term courage. ~I should like to hear
187 4    |       understand you. ~I mean that courage is a kind of salvation. ~
188 4    |            call and maintain to be courage, unless you disagree. ~But
189 4    |          exclude mere uninstructed courage, such as that of a wild
190 4    |           your opinion, is not the courage which the law ordains, and
191 4    |       certainly. ~Then I may infer courage to be such as you describe? ~
192 4    |            we are seeking, not for courage, but justice; and for the
193 4    |       because temperance is unlike courage and wisdom, each of which
194 4    |          virtues of temperance and courage and wisdom are abstracted;
195 4    |       virtues, wisdom, temperance, courage. ~Yes, he said. ~And the
196 4    |          quality which constitutes courage in the State constitutes
197 4    |           in the State constitutes courage in the individual, and that
198 5    |        held to be a deceiver; take courage then and speak. ~Well, I
199 6    |          friend of truth, justice, courage, temperance, who are his
200 6    |            doubtless remember that courage, magnificence, apprehension,
201 6    |           their own virtues, their courage, temperance, and the rest
202 6    |           quickness and memory and courage and magnificence-these were
203 6    |            of justice, temperance, courage, and wisdom? ~Indeed, he
204 7    |          in respect of temperance, courage, magnificence, and every
205 8    |        rich because no one has the courage to despoil them? And when
206 8    |     magnificence," and impudence " courage." And so the young man passes
207 9    |           if honor, or victory, or courage, in that case the judgment
208 10   |         notion, I could not muster courage to utter it. Will you inquire


The Statesman
    Part
209 Intro|            temperance, and another courage. These are two principles
210 Intro|            the stronger element of courage, which we may call the warp,
211 Text |            that you would consider courage to be a part of virtue?~
212 Text |    temperance to be different from courage; and likewise to be a part
213 Text |           one word is manliness or courage.~YOUNG SOCRATES: How?~STRANGER:
214 Text |           actions we predicate not courage, but a name indicative of
215 Text |       whose natures tend rather to courage, which is the stronger element
216 Text |            that?~STRANGER: Because courage, when untempered by the
217 Text |      modesty and has no element of courage in many successive generations,


The Symposium
    Part
218 Text |            would inspire him. That courage which, as Homer says, the
219 Text |           replied Socrates, of the courage and magnanimity which you
220 Text |            temperate indeed. As to courage, even the God of War is
221 Text |        himself the bravest. Of his courage and justice and temperance
222 Text |            am bound to tell—of his courage in battle; for who but he


Theaetetus
    Part
223 Intro|       which Theodorus gives of his courage and patience and intelligence
224 Intro|        course of the dialogue. His courage is shown by his behaviour
225 Intro|            like the definitions of courage in the Laches, or of friendship
226 Intro|    qualities, quickness, patience, courage; and he is gentle as well
227 Intro|           What is knowledge?” Take courage, and by the help of God
228 Intro|          yet if such a man has the courage to hear the argument out,
229 Text |           me interrogate you. Take courage, then, and nobly say what
230 Text |       philosophy, if they have the courage to hear the argument out,


Timaeus
    Part
231 Intro|          two, which is the seat of courage and anger, lies nearer to
232 Intro|        this is the heart, in which courage, anger, and all the nobler
233 Text |             She was pre-eminent in courage and military skill, and
234 Text |         soul which is endowed with courage and passion and loves contention