Socrates was a perfect exemplar in all great qualities, and I am vexed… — Essays

Essays — Michel de Montaigne

Socrates was a perfect exemplar in all great qualities, and I am vexed that he had so deformed a face and body as is said, and so unsuitable to the beauty of his soul, himself being so amorous and such an admirer of beauty: Nature did him wrong. There is nothing more probable than the conformity and relation of the body to the soul:

Lugar: CHAPTER XII · ¶5101
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