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Quotation from Charmides, Lysis and Laches by Plato
“the healthy man has no love of the physician, because he is in health”
Charmides, Lysis and Laches, Lysis (Stephanus 217a), trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
The medical analogy for friendship: the sick body, neither good nor bad in itself, loves medicine because of the presence of disease.
Citation: "the healthy man has no love of the physician, because he is in health" — Plato, Charmides, Lysis and Laches, Lysis (Stephanus 217a), trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-charmides-lysis-laches-q7)
