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Take food for the body, but take wisdom for the soul; the one keeps you alive, the other makes life worth living.
Musonius Rufus · Lectures · paraphrase
What it means today

The body is fed to keep going; the soul is fed to give the going a purpose. One without the other is either starvation or meaninglessness.

Try this todayFeed your soul something real today — a good book, a good thought, a good deed.
Today’s questionAm I feeding my body but starving my soul?
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