When he was questioned about bravery and uprightness and asked which was the better, he said, ‘We have no need of bravery if we are all upright.’ 1
1 Cf. Moralia, 213 C, infra, and Plutarch's Life of Agesilaus, chap. xiii. (608 F).
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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