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Body and soul5 quotes
The human body is the best picture of the human soul. — Ludwig Wittgenstein · 1953There are more disorders of the mind than of the body, and they are of a more dangerous nature. — Cicero · 45 BC’Tis very dishonourable in life, that the soul should fail and desert its duty; while the body can hold out, and sustain its part. — Marcus Aurelius · 180The body, she says, is subject to the forces of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure. — Saul Bellow · 1984The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body. — Michel Foucault · 1975The soul3 quotes
There are more disorders of the mind than of the body, and they are of a more dangerous nature. — Cicero · 45 BC’Tis very dishonourable in life, that the soul should fail and desert its duty; while the body can hold out, and sustain its part. — Marcus Aurelius · 180The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body. — Michel Foucault · 1975Human body2 quotes
The human body is the best picture of the human soul. — Ludwig Wittgenstein · 1953There are more disorders of the mind than of the body, and they are of a more dangerous nature. — Cicero · 45 BCGiving up1 quote
’Tis very dishonourable in life, that the soul should fail and desert its duty; while the body can hold out, and sustain its part. — Marcus Aurelius · 180Sickness1 quote
There are more disorders of the mind than of the body, and they are of a more dangerous nature. — Cicero · 45 BC