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"Modesty is the conscience of the body."
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"The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction."
"Hatred is the air I breathe. It permeates every cell in my body."
"Ever since then, all descendant vertebrates have had the forward end of the digestive system and the forward end of the respiratory system very much involved with each other. This manifests itself in the human body with a crossing of the two systems in the throat."
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"The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other."
"Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves."
"When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues."
"It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time."
"Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps."
"To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure."
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