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Quotes about Body by Socrates

  • 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 I once heard sages say that we are now dead, and the body is our tomb.
  • 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 jewels of wisdom, patience, and above all with a love of liberty.
  • The body cannot be cured without regard for the soul.
  • 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 old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
  • We can do nothing without the body, let us always take care that it is in the best condition to sustain us.
  • There is no illness of the body except for the mind.