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Then I went on and tried to compel him also to admit that everything else connected with the body when most beneficial, was the moderate thing, not the much or the little; and he admitted that it was the moderate thing.And now, I said, as regards the soul; are moderate or immoderate things beneficial, as adjuncts of it?Moderate things, he replied.And are studies among the adjuncts of the soul?He admitted they were.So among these also it is the moderate that are beneficial, and not the much?He agreed.Then whom should we be justified in asking what sort of exercise or food is moderate for the body?The three of us agreed that it must be a doctor or a trainer.
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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