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Quotation from Gorgias by Plato
“All these evil things, my boys, I did for your health”
Gorgias, 522a, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
The only truthful defence available to the physician prosecuted by the cook before a jury of children, an image of Socrates' own coming trial.
Citation: "All these evil things, my boys, I did for your health" — Plato, Gorgias, 522a, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-gorgias-q9)
