A Quote by Ovid

Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers. — © Ovid
Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers.

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Fasting cures diseases, dries up bodily humors, puts demons to flight, gets rid of impure thoughts, makes the mind clearer and the heart purer, the body sanctified, and raises man to the throne of God.
All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.
By examining the tongue of the patient, physicians find out the diseases of the body, and philosophers the diseases of the mind.
We are led to think of diseases as isolated disturbances in a healthy body, not as the phases of certain periods of bodily development.
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If the means to which the government of the union may resort for executing the power confided to it, are unlimited, it may easily select such as will impair or destroy the powers confided to the state governments.
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In this disintegrative, technologically-manic time, when public language is so debased, poetry continues to matter because it's the art that reintegrates words, speech, voice, breath, music, bodily tempo, and the powers of the imagination.
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The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it; nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.
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