While many treatments of all kinds have been discovered by physicians for the ills of our bodies, there exists no remedy for souls which are ignorant of the truth and filled with base desires. Isocrates. On The Peace. Speech 8. Section 39.
Image: Hippocrates visiting Democritus by Pieter Lastman,1622, Detail, at the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
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