59.1
Pausanias, the son of Pleistoanax, in answer to the question why it was not permitted to change any of the ancient laws in their country, said, Because the laws ought to have authority over the men, and not the men over the laws.
59.2
When, in Tegea, after he had been exiled, In 394 B.C. he commended the Spartans, someone said, Why did you not stay in Sparta instead of going into exile? And he said, Because physicians, too, are wont to spend their time, not among the healthy, but where the sick are. Cf. the similar saying which is attributed to Aristippus in Diogenes Laertius, ii. 70.
59.3
When someone inquired of him how they could become able to conquer the Thracians, he said, If we should make the best man our general.
59.4
When a physician paid him a visit and said, You have nothing wrong with you, he said, No, for I do not employ you as my physician.
59.5
When one of his friends blamed him because he spoke ill of a certain physician, although he had never had anything to do with him, and had not suffered any harm at his hands, he said, Because if I had ever had anything to do with him I should not now be alive.
59.6
When the physician said to him, You have lived to be an old man, he said, That is because I never employed you as my physician.
59.7
He said that the best physician was the man who did not allow his patients to rot, but buried them quickly.
PAEDARETUS See the note on Moralia, 191 F, supra.
60.1
Paedaretus, when someone said that the enemy were many in number, remarked,Then we shall be the more famous, for we shall kill more men.
60.2
Seeing a certain man who was effeminate by nature, but was commended by the citizens for his moderation, he said, People should not praise men who are like to women nor women who are like to men, unless some necessity overtake the woman.
