There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body’s sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in one’s self.
The flesh is the covering of the soul.[La chair, c’est le dessus de l’inconnu.]
The body – the cage – is everything of the most respectable – but through the bars, the wild animal looks out.
My body is but the lees of my better being.
In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one’s own body.
I hate a cramp. It is a treachery of one’s own body.
Your body is only clothing. Your flesh will wither, but you are your heart and mind, and they do not change except to grow stronger.
We are not ourselves when nature, being oppress’d, commands the mind to suffer with the body.
Time does to the body what stupidity does to the soul.
The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul.
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.[Der menschliche Körper ist das beste Bild der menschlichen Seele.]
