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Do you think it a beautiful thing?
I prefer to say very beautiful.
So you think Courage useful for no mean purposes?
Of course — or rather, for the greatest.
Then do you think that in the pressure of terrors and dangers it is useful to be ignorant of them?
By no means.
So those who feel no fear of such things because they are ignorant of them are not courageous?
Of course not, for in that case many madmen and cowards would be courageous.
What of those who are afraid when there is no ground for fear?
Still less, of course.
Then do you think that those who are good in the presence of terrors and dangers are courageous, and those who are bad are cowards?
Certainly.
I prefer to say very beautiful.
So you think Courage useful for no mean purposes?
Of course — or rather, for the greatest.
Then do you think that in the pressure of terrors and dangers it is useful to be ignorant of them?
By no means.
So those who feel no fear of such things because they are ignorant of them are not courageous?
Of course not, for in that case many madmen and cowards would be courageous.
What of those who are afraid when there is no ground for fear?
Still less, of course.
Then do you think that those who are good in the presence of terrors and dangers are courageous, and those who are bad are cowards?
Certainly.
Memorabilia. Xenophon. Edgar Carew Marchant (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1923.
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