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Quotation from Charmides, Lysis and Laches by Plato

“is the great error of our day in the treatment of the human body, that physicians separate the soul from the body”

Plato (spoken by Socrates, reporting the Thracian physician)

Charmides, Lysis and Laches, Charmides (Stephanus 157b), trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)

The physician's special instruction: no one should cure the head without first submitting his soul to the charm.

Citation: "is the great error of our day in the treatment of the human body, that physicians separate the soul from the body" — Plato, Charmides, Lysis and Laches, Charmides (Stephanus 157b), trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-charmides-lysis-laches-q2)

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