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What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?

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

The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses.

A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison.

I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.

All of us have mortal bodies, composed of perishable matter, but the soul lives forever: it is a portion of the Deity housed in our bodies.

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.

How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.

It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.

Leisure is the exultation of the possible.

My skull, my eyes, my nose three times, my jaw, my shoulder, my chest, two fingers, a knee, everything from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet. .

I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.