No less wonderful is it to me that
 some believed the charge brought against
 Socrates of
 corrupting the youth. In the first place, apart from what I have
 said, in control of his own passions and appetites he was the
 strictest of men; further, in endurance of cold and heat and every
 kind of toil he was most resolute; and besides, his needs were so
 schooled to moderation that having very little he was yet very
 content. Such was his own character: how then can he have led others into
 impiety, crime, gluttony, lust, or sloth? On the contrary, he cured
 these vices in many, by putting into them a desire for goodness, and
 by giving them confidence that self-discipline would make them
 gentlemen. To be sure he never professed to teach this; but, by letting his own
 light shine, he led his disciples to hope that they through
 imitation of him would attain to such excellence. Furthermore, he himself never neglected the body, and reproved such
 neglect in others. Thus over-eating followed by over-exertion he
 disapproved. But he approved of taking as much hard exercise as is
 agreeable to the soul; Cyropaedia I. vi. 17. for the habit
 not only insured good health, but did not hamper the care of the
 soul. On the other hand, he disliked foppery and pretentiousness in the
 fashion of clothes or shoes or in behaviour. Nor, again, did he
 encourage love of money in his companions. For while he checked
 their other desires, he would not make money himself out of their
 desire for his companionship.