[406c]
“The appropriate one,” said I, “for a man
who did not know that it was not from ignorance or inacquaintance with this
type of medicine that Aesculapius did not discover it to his descendants,
but because he knew that for all well-governed peoples there is a work
assigned to each man in the city which he must perform, and no one has
leisure to be sick1 and doctor himself all his days. And this we
absurdly enough perceive in the case of a craftsman, but don't see in the
case of the rich and so-called fortunate.” “How
so?” he said.
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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