"Exercise till the mind feels delight in reposing from the fatigue."
— Socrates

January 1, 1970

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First appearance on google books is C. Edwards Lester's 1845 English translation of Ansaldo Ceba's book Il Cittadino di Repubblica, translated as The Citizen of a Republic, which on p. 92 says "Moderate exercise is also indispensable; its bounds seem to have been fixed by Socrates—'Exercise till the mind feels delight in reposing from the fatigue.'" However, the original Italian version the same comment, found on p. 144 of this edition, does not give this as a direct quote but just as a summary