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Quotation from Charmides, Lysis and Laches by Plato
“And the cure, my dear youth, has to be effected by the use of certain charms, and these charms are fair words; and by them temperance is implanted in the soul”
Charmides, Lysis and Laches, Charmides (Stephanus 157a), trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
Socrates explains that the 'charm' is speech that forms the soul, which turns out to mean the dialogue itself.
Citation: "And the cure, my dear youth, has to be effected by the use of certain charms, and these charms are fair words; and by them temperance is implanted in the soul" — Plato, Charmides, Lysis and Laches, Charmides (Stephanus 157a), trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-charmides-lysis-laches-q3)
