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“SOCRATES: Come then, what of statements such as this: Should a man professionally engaged in physical training pay attention to the praise and [b] blame and opinion of any man, or to those of one man only, namely a doctor or trainer? CRITO: To those of one only. SOCRATES: He should therefore fear the blame and welcome the praise of that one man, and not those of the many? CRITO: Obviously. SOCRATES: He must then act and exercise, eat and drink in the way the one, the trainer and the one who knows, thinks right, not all the others? CRITO: That is so. [c] SOCRATES: Very well. And if he disobeys the one, disregards his opinion and his praises while valuing those of the many who have no knowledge, will he not suffer harm? CRITO: Of course. SOCRATES: What is that harm, where does it tend, and what part of the man who disobeys does it affect? CRITO: Obviously the harm is to his body, which it ruins.”
― Plato, Plato: Complete Works