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Quotation from Rhetoric by Aristotle
“it is not the function of medicine simply to make a man quite healthy, but to put him as far as may be on the road to health”
Rhetoric, Book I, Ch. 1, trans. W. Rhys Roberts (1924)
The medical analogy defines rhetoric's success as doing what the circumstances allow, not guaranteeing the verdict.
Citation: "it is not the function of medicine simply to make a man quite healthy, but to put him as far as may be on the road to health" — Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book I, Ch. 1, trans. W. Rhys Roberts (1924). (id aristotle-rhetoric-q3)
