Plato, Lesser Hippias, section 374b

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[374b] so that whenever he performs bad acts of a bodily kind, he who is the better man in respect to his body does them voluntarily, but he who is worse does them involuntarily?

Hippias
That seems to be the case in matters of strength also.

Socrates
And how about grace, Hippias? Does not the better body take ugly and bad postures voluntarily, and the worse body involuntarily? Or what is your opinion?

Hippias
That is my opinion.

Socrates
Then ungracefulness when voluntary is associated with excellence of the body,

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925.

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