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Quotation from Statesman by Plato
“just as the physician, whether he cures us against our will or with our will, and whatever be his mode of treatment,--incision, burning, or the infliction of some other pain,--whether he practises out of a book or not out of a book”
Statesman, Science and law (293b), trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
The analogy behind the claim that true rulers are marked by knowledge alone, not by consent, wealth or written rules.
Citation: "just as the physician, whether he cures us against our will or with our will, and whatever be his mode of treatment,--incision, burning, or the infliction of some other pain,--whether he practises out of a book or not out of a book" — Plato, Statesman, Science and law (293b), trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-statesman-q2)
