"The wisdom which knows what are and are not dangers is opposed to the ignorance of them"
— Plato

January 1, 1970

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Sometimes misattributed as "Courage is knowing what to fear and what not to fear", this paraphrase is actually from Werner Jaeger's book Paideia: the Ideal of Greek Culture, Volume II, p. 122, where the footnote references Protagoras 360d5.