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XLIX

To be eager that your house should be admired by being whitened with gypsum, is the mark of a man who has no taste: but to set off (decorate) our morals by the goodness of our communication (social habits) is the mark of a man who is a lover of beauty and a lover of man.

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XLIX · Discourses (as reported by Arrian) — Epictetus · The Conscious Library