"By all means," he answered.
"And temperance, also, which even the multitude call temperance, and which consists in not being carried away by the passions, but in holding them in contempt, and keeping them in subjection, does not this belong to those only who most despise the body, and live in the study of philosophy?"
"Necessarily so," he replied.
[36]. "For," he continued, "if you will consider the fortitude and temperance of others, they will appear to you to be absurd."
"How so, Socrates?"
"Do you know," he said, "that all others consider death among the great evils?"
"They do indeed," he answered.
"Then, do the brave among them endure death when they do endure it, through dread of greater evils?"
"It is so."
"All men, therefore, except philosophers, are brave through being afraid and fear; though it is absurd that any one should be brave through fear and cowardice."