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Quotation from Statesman by Plato
“Because courage, when untempered by the gentler nature during many generations, may at first bloom and strengthen, but at last bursts forth into downright madness.”
Statesman, Royal weaving (310d), trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
Explaining why the bold should not marry only the bold: courage unmixed with gentleness grows extreme over generations.
Citation: "Because courage, when untempered by the gentler nature during many generations, may at first bloom and strengthen, but at last bursts forth into downright madness." — Plato, Statesman, Royal weaving (310d), trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-statesman-q5)
