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Then the good and wise judge whom we are seeking is not this man,

but the other; for vice cannot know virtue too, but a virtuous

nature, educated by time, will acquire a knowledge both of virtue

and vice: the virtuous, and not the vicious, man has wisdom-in my

opinion.

And in mine also.

This is the sort of medicine, and this is the sort of law, which

you will sanction in your state. They will minister to better

natures, giving health both of soul and of body; but those who

are diseased in their bodies they will leave to die, and the

corrupt and incurable souls they will put an end to themselves.

That is clearly the best thing both for the patients and for the

State.

And thus our youth, having been educated only in that simple

music which, as we said, inspires temperance, will be reluctant

to go to law.

Clearly.

And the musician, who, keeping to the same track, is content to

practise the simple gymnastic, will have nothing to do with

medicine unless in some extreme case.

That I quite believe.