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“He who through virtue and spiritual knowledge has brought his body into harmony with his soul has become a harp, a flute and a temple of God. He has become a harp by preserving the harmony of the virtues; a flute by receiving the inspiration of the Spirit through divine contemplation; and a temple by becoming a dwelling place of the Logos through the purity of his intellect.”

“A true woman of virtue is one who will socialize with every man on earth, and doesn't share her body with any of them.”

Men Body Earth Virtue Share Every Man True Woman

Author:Michael Bassey

“Qu. 31. Have not the small Particles of Bodies certain Powers, Virtues or Forces, by which they act at a distance, not only upon the Rays of Light for reflecting, refracting and reflecting them, but also upon one another for producing a great part of the Phænomena of Nature?”

Body Light Science Certain Force Nature Natural Virtue Distance Rays Particles Reflecting Rays Of Light

Book:MATHEMATICAL PRINCIPLES OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY OPTICS

Source: MATHEMATICAL PRINCIPLES OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY OPTICS

“Bodies which contain a greater proportion of water than is necessary to balance the other elements, are speedily corrupted, and lose their virtues and properties.”

Body Water Loses Virtue Greater Balance Elements Property Proportion

Book:The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt

Source: The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt

“I, methought, while the sweet breath of heaven Was blowing on my body, felt within A correspondent breeze, that gently moved With quickening virtue, but is now become A tempest, a redundant energy, Vexing its own creation.”

Body Energy Heaven Felt Virtue Creation Sweet Breaths Moved Breeze Tempest Redundant Quickening

Author:William Wordsworth

“Gravity is a mutual affection between cognate bodies towards union or conjunction (similar in kind to the magnetic virtue), so that the earth attracts a stone much rather than the stone seeks the earth.”

Kind Body Earth Virtue Stones Unions Affection Mutual Gravity Magnetic Conjunctions

Author:Johannes Kepler

“Difficult, say you? Difficult to be a man of virtue, truly good, shaped and fashioned without flaw in the perfect figure of four-squared excellence, in body and mind, in act and thought?”

Men Mind Body Difficult Perfect Virtue Four Figures Excellence Flaws Mind And Body Be A Man

Author:Simonides of Ceos

“We are, in the end, a sum of our parts, and when the body fails, all the virtues we hold dear go with it.”

Ends Body Virtue Failing Dear

Book:Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

Source: Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

“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.”

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Author:Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

“Rama Nama should come from the heart. In that event, Rama Nama could become an effective remedy against all ailments. A man who believes in Rama Nama would not make a fetish of the body but would regard it as a means of serving God. And for making it into a fit instrument for that purpose, Rama Nama is the sovereign means. To install Rama Nama in the heart requires infinite patience. It might even take ages. But the effort is worthwhile. Rama Nama cannot come from the heart unless one has cultivated the virtues of truth, honesty and purity within and without.”

“The most perfect education ... is such an exercise of the understanding as is best calculated to strengthen the body and form the heart. Or, in other words, to enable the individual to attain such habits of virtue as will render it independent.”

Heart Body Form Individual Understanding Perfect Education Virtue Habit Exercise Independent

Book:Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Men and a Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Hints

Source: Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Men and a Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Hints