"An effeminate education weakens both the mind and…" — Edgar Quinet

"An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body."

— Edgar Quinet

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13 Quotes by Edgar Quinet

Edgar Quinet has 13 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
Today as in the time of Pliny and Columella, the hyacinth flourishes in Wales, the periwinkle in Illyria, the daisy…
Time is the fairest and toughest judge.
What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world?
It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy…
The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within…
The ceding of Alsace-Lorraine is nothing but war in perpetuity under the mask of peace.
What we share with another ceases to be our own....
I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.
Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still,…
Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.
Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it…

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More Body Quotes

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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
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… — Aristotle
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the… — M H Abrams
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — 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… — John James Audubon
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine

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