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Philosophical literature4 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 soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body. — Michel Foucault · 1975Historical literature1 quote
The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body. — Michel Foucault · 1975