Socrates on physical fitness and beauty

“[I]t is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.”

(Socrates, according to Xenophon, Memorabilia, 3.12)

The statue is Myron’s Discobulus.

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