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It's foolish to take too much care of your body

Epictetus•The Enrichidion (the handbook)•Chapter 41

It is a mark of an ungifted man to spend a great deal of time in what concerns his body, as in much exercise, much eating, much drinking, much evacuating of the bowels, much copulating. But these things are to be done in passing; and let your whole attention be devoted to the mind.