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or despise them, except so far as it is necessary to have them?”“I think the true philosopher would despise them,” he replied.“Altogether, then, you think that such a man would not devote himself to the body, but would, so far as he was able, turn away from the body and concern himself with the soul?”“Yes.”“To begin with, then, it is clear that in such matters the philosopher, more than other men, separates
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