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Quotation from Charmides, Lysis and Laches by Plato

“the part can never be well unless the whole is well”

Plato (spoken by Socrates, reporting the Thracian physician)

Charmides, Lysis and Laches, Charmides (Stephanus 156e), trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)

The teaching of Zamolxis' physicians that Socrates offers Charmides with the headache cure: Greek doctors fail because they ignore the whole, including the soul.

Citation: "the part can never be well unless the whole is well" — Plato, Charmides, Lysis and Laches, Charmides (Stephanus 156e), trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-charmides-lysis-laches-q1)

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