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Quotation from Charmides, Lysis and Laches by Plato
“Do you imagine, Laches, that the physician knows whether health or disease is the more terrible to a man”
Charmides, Lysis and Laches, Laches (Stephanus 195c), trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
Nicias answers Laches' objection that doctors know the dangers of disease: medical knowledge covers health and sickness but not whether living or dying is better for a given patient.
Citation: "Do you imagine, Laches, that the physician knows whether health or disease is the more terrible to a man" — Plato, Charmides, Lysis and Laches, Laches (Stephanus 195c), trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-charmides-lysis-laches-q12)
