A Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Virtue is to the soul what health is tot he body.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Body Health Soul Virtue

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
French - Writer
September 15, 1613 - March 17, 1680

Virtue is the health of the soul.

Joseph Joubert

Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.

Joseph Addison

Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.

Plato

Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.

Benjamin Whichcote

The soul is the ego, the ‘I,’ or the self, and it contains our consciousness. It also animates our body. That’s why when the soul leaves the body, the body becomes a corpse. The soul is immaterial and distinct from the body.

J.P. Moreland

Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health.

Saint Basil

Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life.

Joseph Joubert

The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association with the body in life but avoiding it.......Practicing philosophy in the right way is a training to die easily.

Socrates

These principles have given me a way of explaining naturally the union or rather the mutual agreement [conformité] of the soul and the organic body. The soul follows its own laws, and the body likewise follows its own laws; and they agree with each other in virtue of the pre-established harmony between all substances, since they are all representations of one and the same universe.

Gottfried Leibniz

The soul is subject to health and disease, just as is the body. The health and disease of both . . . undoubtedly depend upon beliefs and customs, which are peculiar to mankind.

Maimonides

The health of the soul is something we can be no more sure of than that of the body; and though a man may seem far from the passions, yet he is in as much danger of falling into them as one in a perfect state of health of having a fit of sickness.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The soul loves the body. And consider too how it is that the body is more in the soul than the soul is in the body.