——“The righteous.”
Is it the temperate or the profligate?
——“The temperate.”
Is it the continent or the incontinent?
——“The continent.”
Then making yourself such a one as you praise, you will know that you are making yourself beautiful; but so long as you neglect these things, though you sought out every device to appear beautiful, you must of necessity be ugly.
2. For thou art not flesh and hair, but a Will: if thou keep this beautiful, then wilt thou be beautiful. But so far I dare not tell thee that thou art ugly, for I think thou wilt more easily bear to hear anything else than this. But see what Socrates saith to Alcibiades, the most beautiful and blooming of men: Endeavor, then, to be beautiful; and what saith he? Curl thy locks, and pluck out the hairs of thy legs? God forbid. But Set thy Will in order, cast out evil doctrines.
——“And how then shall we deal with the body?”
As nature made it. Another hath cared for this; commit it to Him.
——“But what? Shall the body then be uncleansed?”