28.  But we, upon whose efforts is staked the salvation of a soul, a being blessed and immortal, and destined for undying chastisement or praise, for its vice or virtue,—what a struggle ought ours to be, and how great skill do we require to treat, or get men treated properly, and to change their life, and give up the clay to the spirit.  For men and women, young and old, rich and poor, the sanguine and despondent, the sick and whole, rulers and ruled, the wise and ignorant, the cowardly and courageous, the wrathful and meek, the successful and failing, do not require the same instruction and encouragement.

ΚΗʹ. Ἡμῖν δὲ, οἷς τὸ κινδυνευόμενόν ἐστι σωτηρία ψυχῆς, τῆς μακαρίας τε καὶ ἀθανάτου, καὶ ἀθάνατα κολασθησομένης, ἢ ἐπαινεθησομένης, διὰ κακίαν ἢ ἀρετὴν, πόσον χρὴ δοκεῖν εἶναι τὸν ἀγῶνα, ἢ ὅσης δεῖν τῆς ἐπιστήμης ἰατρεῦσαι καλῶς, ἢ ἰατρευθῆναι, καὶ τὴν ζωὴν μεταθέσθαι, καὶ δοῦναι τὸν χοῦν τῷ πνεύματι; Οὐ γὰρ τῶν αὐτῶν οὔτε λόγων οὔτε ὁρμῶν, οὔτε τὸ θῆλυ τῷ ἄῤῥενι, οὔτε γήρᾳ νεότης, οὔτε πενίᾳ πλοῦτος, οὔτε εὐθυμῶν ἀθυμοῦντι, οὔτε ὁ κάμνων τῷ ὑγιαίνοντι, ἄρχοντές τε καὶ ἀρχόμενοι, σοφοί τε καὶ ἀμαθεῖς, δειλοί τε καὶ θρασεῖς, ὀργίλοι καὶ πρᾶοι, κατορθοῦντες καὶ πίπτοντες.