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[194d]

Nicias
I have often heard you say that every man is good in that wherein he is wise, and bad in that wherein he is unlearned.

Socrates
Well, that is true, Nicias, I must say.

Nicias
And hence, if the brave man is good, clearly he must be wise.

Socrates
Do you hear him, Laches?

Laches
I do, without understanding very well what he says.

Socrates
But I think I understand it: our friend appears to me to mean that courage is a kind of wisdom.

Laches
What kind of wisdom, Socrates?


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