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Body Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body.
- A feeble body weakens the mind.
- Ruthless man: you begin by slaying the animal and then you devour it, as if to slay it twice. It is not enough. You turn…
- 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…
- Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.
- What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution…
- Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body
- Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body
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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
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- Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
- I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
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- Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions… — Saint Augustine