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is the opposite of cowardice.Yes.Then the wisdom that knows what is and what is not dreadful is opposed to the ignorance of these things?To this he could still nod assent. And the ignorance of them is cowardice? To this he nodded very reluctantly.So the wisdom that knows what is and what is not dreadful is courage, being opposed to the ignorance of these things?Here he could no longer bring himself to nod agreement, and remained silent. Then I proceeded: Why is it, Protagoras, that you neither affirm nor deny what I ask you?Finish it, he said, by yourself.
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 3 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1967.
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