Plato, Laches, section 199e

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[199e] as regards what is to be dreaded and what is not, and of procuring good things, owing to his knowledge of the right behaviour towards them?

Nicias
I think, Socrates, there is something in what you say.

Socrates
Hence what you now describe, Nicias, will be not a part but the whole of virtue.

Nicias
Apparently.

Socrates
But, you know, we said that courage is one of the parts of virtue.

Nicias
Yes, we did.

Socrates
And what we now describe is seen to be different.

Nicias
So it seems.

Socrates
Thus we have failed to discover, Nicias, what courage really is.

Nicias
Evidently.

Laches
And I, in fact, supposed, my dear Nicias, that you were going to discover it,

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 8 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1955.

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