The Republic, by Plato. Part II.
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The Importance of Virtue in Life
In all well-ordered states every individual has an occupation to which he must attend. This we remark in the case of the artisan, but ludicrously enough do not apply the same rule to people of the richer sort. When a carpenter is ill, he asks the physician for a rough and ready cure,. An emidic or purge or a cottery or the knife. These are his remedies. If someone prescribes for him a course of dietetics and tells him that he must swath and swaddle his head and all that sort of thing, he replies at once that he has no time to be ill. He resumes his ordinary habits, and either gets well and lives and does
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