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Body Quotes by Socrates
- Whoever would have his body supple, easy and healthful should learn to dance.
- No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training... what a disgrace it is for a man to grow…
- Who knows if to live is to be dead, and to be dead, to live? And we really, it may be, are dead; in fact…
- There is no illness of the body except for the mind
- The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.
- Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.
- Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth;…
- I have not sought during my life to amass wealth and to adorn my body, but I have sought to adorn my soul with the…
- We can do nothing without the body, let us always take care that it is in the best condition to sustain us.
- 'Wars, factions, and fighting,' said Socrates as he looked forward from his last hour, 'have no other origin than this same body and its lusts...…
- We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate…
- The body cannot be cured without regard for the soul.
- Just as you ought not to attempt to cure eyes without head or head without body, so you should not treat body without soul.
- A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor…
- The reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.
- The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association with the body…
- Besides, it is a shame to let yourself grow old through neglect before seeing how you can develop the maximum beauty and strength of body;…
More Body Quotes
- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on… — Aristotle
- 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