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Full Idea
A life devoted to every physical perfection and every moral virtue is the only life worth the name.
Gist of Idea
The only worthwhile life is one devoted to physical and moral perfection
Source
Plato (The Laws [c.349 BCE], 807c)
Book Ref
Plato: 'The Laws', ed/tr. Saunders,Trevor J [Penguin 1970], p.297