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Quotation from Charmides, Lysis and Laches by Plato
“I should say that courage is a sort of endurance of the soul”
Charmides, Lysis and Laches, Laches (Stephanus 192b-c), trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
Laches' second definition, offered after Socrates shows that 'remaining at one's post' does not cover courage in retreat, at sea, in illness or against pleasure.
Citation: "I should say that courage is a sort of endurance of the soul" — Plato, Charmides, Lysis and Laches, Laches (Stephanus 192b-c), trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-charmides-lysis-laches-q10)
