"Modesty is the conscience of the body."

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"Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves."

Ovid, Roman Poet

Body, Water

"I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing. I'm a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. Inside it is a space, huge as the sky at night and dark and curved like that, though black-red rather than black."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Body, Consciousness, Imagination, Emotion

"We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

Body, Mind, Nothing

"If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Body, Mind

"It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate."

Dave Barry, American Journalist

Body, Fact, Will

"The body is not a reliable friend."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Body, Friend, Reliability, Trust

"Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

Body,

"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."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

Body, Causes, Destruction

"What the mind cannot retain, the body will have to endure."

Edwin Louis Cole, American Author

Body, Mind, Will

"One doesn't even think ofthe liverand if the liverdoesn't think ofus, that'sfine."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Body, Health, Neglect, Humor

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"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."

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"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."

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"Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself."

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"Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society."

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"First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time."

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"The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris."

Nation

"Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul."

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"Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves."

"We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind."

"If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free."

"It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate."

"The body is not a reliable friend."

"Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem."

"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."

"What the mind cannot retain, the body will have to endure."

"One doesn't even think ofthe liverand if the liverdoesn't think ofus, that'sfine."

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"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."

"A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea."

"In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls."

"Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings."

"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."

"Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself."

"Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society."

"First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time."

"The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris."

"Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul."