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Quotation from Charmides, Lysis and Laches by Plato
“We too must endure and persevere in the enquiry, and then courage will not laugh at our faint-heartedness in searching for courage”
Charmides, Lysis and Laches, Laches (Stephanus 194a), trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
With Laches' definition in trouble, Socrates turns it on the discussion itself: inquiry also needs endurance.
Citation: "We too must endure and persevere in the enquiry, and then courage will not laugh at our faint-heartedness in searching for courage" — Plato, Charmides, Lysis and Laches, Laches (Stephanus 194a), trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-charmides-lysis-laches-q11)
