He took a reasonable care of his body's health, not as one who was greatly attached to life, nor out of regard to personal appearance, nor yet in a careless way, but so that through his own attention he very seldom stood in need of the physician's art or of medicine or external applications.
Marcus Aurelius describes a person's sensible and detached approach to maintaining physical health.
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