"In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body."

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"In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by 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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"Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive."

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"The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions."

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"There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it."

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"Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable."

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"Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so."

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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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"There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften."

"Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself."

"Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive."

"The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions."

"There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it."

"Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable."

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