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be long over bodily exercises long
For if you are not acting rightly, shun the act itself; if rightly, however, why fear misplaced censure? H2 anchor CLXXIII It stamps a man of mean capacity to spend much time on the things of the body, as to be long over bodily exercises, long over eating, long over drinking, long over other bodily functions.
— from The Golden Sayings of Epictetus, with the Hymn of Cleanthes by Epictetus

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