Str. The character of the courageous, on the other hand, falls short of the
former in justice and caution, but has the power of action in a remarkable
degree, and where either of these two qualities is wanting, there cities.
cannot altogether prosper either in their public or private life.
Y. Soc. Certainly they cannot.
Str. This then we declare to be the completion of the web of political Action,
which is created by a direct intertexture of the brave and temperate natures,
whenever the royal science has drawn the two minds into communion with one
another by unanimity and friendship, and having perfected the noblest and best
of all the webs which political life admits, and enfolding therein all other
inhabitants of cities, whether slaves or freemen, binds them in one fabric and
governs and presides over them, and, in so far as to be happy is vouchsafed to
a city, in no particular fails to secure their happiness.
Y. Soc. Your picture, Stranger, of the king and statesman, no less than of the
Sophist, is quite perfect.
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