Full Idea
Callicles: Why do most people praise self-discipline and justice? Because their own timidity makes them incapable of satisfying their pleasures.
Gist of Idea
Do most people praise self-discipline and justice because they are too timid to gain their own pleasure?
Source
Plato (Gorgias [c.378 BCE], 492a)
Book Reference
Plato: 'Gorgias', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [OUP World's Classics 1994], p.79