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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: other?
LACHES: That is true.
SOCRATES: Then you would say that he who in an engagement of cavalry
endures, having the knowledge of horsemanship, is not so courageous as he
who endures, having no such knowledge?
LACHES: So I should say.
SOCRATES: And he who endures, having a knowledge of the use of the sling,
or the bow, or of any other art, is not so courageous as he who endures,
not having such a knowledge?
LACHES: True.
SOCRATES: And he who descends into a well, and dives, and holds out in
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