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“We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body.”

Mind Body Suffering Command Insanity Oppressed

Book:The Mind of Shakspeare as Exhibited in His Works

Source: The Mind of Shakspeare as Exhibited in His Works

“O impotence of mind, in body strong! But what is strength without a double share Of wisdom, vast, unwieldy, burdensome, Proudly secure, yet liable to fall By weakest subtleties, not made to rule, But to subserve where wisdom bears command.”

Mind Made Body Fall Strong Share Bears Command Secure Subtlety Liable Impotence

Author:John Milton

“The legislator commands the future; to be feeble will avail him nothing: it is for him to will what is good and to perpetuate it; to make man what he desires to be: for the laws, working upon the social body, which is inert in itself, can produce either virtue or crime, civilized customs or savagery.”

Men Body Law Desire Social Virtue Crime Produce Command Civilized Customs Legislators Savagery

Author:Louis Antoine de Saint-Just