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It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.

Plato
Thinking, Soul, Excellence
Plato, Raymond Larson (1979). “The Republic”, Wiley-Blackwell
It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.