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Will you tell me?

I will, if I can. Let me however note that in the same question

you join two things which are not the same.

How so? he asked.

Why, I said, you join physicians and judges. Now the most skilful

physicians are those who, from their youth upwards, have combined

with the knowledge of their art the greatest experience of

disease; they had better not be robust in health, and should have

had all manner of diseases in their own persons. For the body, as

I conceive, is not the instrument with which they cure the body;

in that case we could not allow them ever to be or to have been

sickly; but they cure the body with the mind, and the mind which

has become and is sick can cure nothing.

That is very true, he said.