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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Laches by Plato: LACHES: Do you, Socrates, if you like, ask him: I think that I have asked
enough.
SOCRATES: I do not see why I should not; and my question will do for both
of us.
LACHES: Very good.
SOCRATES: Then tell me, Nicias, or rather tell us, for Laches and I are
partners in the argument: Do you mean to affirm that courage is the
knowledge of the grounds of hope and fear?
NICIAS: I do.
SOCRATES: And not every man has this knowledge; the physician and the
soothsayer have it not; and they will not be courageous unless they acquire
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