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or by something else?” “Necessarily.”
“Is it not true that to be altered and moved1 by something else happens least to things that are in the best
condition, as, for example, a body by food and drink and toil, and
plants2 by the heat of the sun and winds and similar
influences—is it not true that the healthiest and strongest is
least altered?”
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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