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Body Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Our minds are lazier than our bodies.
- Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
- Wisdom is the mind what health is to the body.
- It is difficult to define love; all we can say is, that in the soul it is a desire to rule, in the mind it…
- Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind.
- The sicknesses of the soul have their ups and downs like those of the body; what we take to be a cure is most often…
- As the great ones of this world are unable to bestow health of body or peace of mind, we always pay too high a price…
- We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies.
- Idleness is more an infirmity of the mind than of the body.
- The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still…
- The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds of the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still…
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- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
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- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
- I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions… — Saint Augustine