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We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.

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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

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It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the b...more

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Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths an...more

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When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

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So when a man surrenders to the sound of music and lets its sweet, soft, mournful strains, which we have just described, be funnelled into his soul th...more