Diet and Exercise as a Metaphor for Knowledge

Those who eat most, and who take the most exercise, are not in better health than they who eat just as much as is good for them; and in the same way it is not those who know a great many things, but they who know what is useful who are valuable men.

Notes:

An insightful observation by Aristippus The Cyrenaic.

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