Plato Quotes on Medicine & Medical (8 Quotes)

Medicine is an art, and attends to the nature and constitution of the patient, and has principles of action And reason in each case.

It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician for all chastisement is a kind of medicine.

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not

In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.

Atheism is a disease of the soul, before it becomes an error of the understanding.