Haec ego de forma respondissem; praeterea, licere etiam philosophis esse voltu liberali; Pythagoram, qui primus sese philosophum nuncuparit, eum sui saeculi excellentissima forma fuisse; item Zenonem illum antiquum Velia oriundum, qui primus omnium sollertissimo artificio <argumenta> ambifariam dissolverit, eum quoque Zenonem longe decorissimum fuisse, ut Plato autumat; itemque multos philosophos ab ore honestissimos memoriae prodi, qui gratiam corporis morum honestamentis ornaverint.
The most glorious gifts of the gods are by no means to be rejected, but they are usually given by the gods themselves, and many people want them without receiving them. That is what I would have answered about my looks. Furthermore, I could have said that even philosophers may be decent-looking; that Pythagoras himself, the first man to call himself a philosopher, was the most outstandingly handsome man of his time; similarly, that the famous Zeno of antiquity, who came from Velia, the very first person to refute hypotheses by the most ingenious device of self-inconsistency,'this Zeno too was extremely handsome, according to Plato; and many philosophers are likewise recorded as being very good-looking, and to have added to their physical grace by the further adornment of character.
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