Plato, Alcibiades 1, section 131b

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[131b] but the things of the body, with which it is tended.

Alcibiades
That is true.

Socrates
So if knowing oneself is temperance, none of these people is temperate in respect of his art.

Alcibiades
None, I agree.

Socrates
And that is why these arts are held to be sordid, and no acquirements for a good man.

Alcibiades
Quite so.

Socrates
Then once again, whoever tends his body tends his own things, but not himself?

Alcibiades
It looks rather like it.

Socrates
But whoever tends his money tends neither himself nor

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 8 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1955.

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