Body Quotes by Aristotle
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Aristotle notes that the body is like an inn we stay in only briefly, and that a single soul can inhabit two bodies. He points out that sensations depend on the body while the mind can exist apart from it. He also mentions that the body peaks in the early thirties, while the mind matures later.
![“The body is most fully developed [at] from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.” quote by Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/03c/aristotle-78_age_the-body-is-most-fully-developed-at-from_775225.png)
![“So, if we must give a general formula applicable to all kinds of soul, we must describe it as the first actuality [entelechy] of anatural organized body.” quote by Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c4c/aristotle-78_actuality_so-if-we-must-give-a-general-formula-app_2187698.png)
![“Anaximenes and Anaxagoras and Democritus say that its [the earth's] flatness is responsible for it staying still: for it does not cut the air beneath but covers it like a lid, which flat bodies evidently do: for they are hard to move even for the winds, on account of their resistance.” quote by Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c55/aristotle-78_accounts_anaximenes-and-anaxagoras-and-democritus_1311623.png)
