Download or read book Plutarch comparing passions and diseases written by Plutarch and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2018-01-03 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Man is the most unhappy of all creatures. His body has many diseases, and they are readily perceived. But the soul does not readily perceive its own maladies; it even mistakes them for indications of soundness. The man diseased in body willingly yields to the care of the physician. But the unruly passions of the soul resist a cure, and are therefore more fatal.