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

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

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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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"Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality."

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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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"The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late."

"Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love."

"If you want to be loved, be lovable."

"Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality."

"Time, motion and wine cause sleep."

"How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man."

"An evil life is a kind of death."