"The strong look for more strength, the weak for excuses."
"We are more than our bodies, it is true; but we cannot be divorced from them. They are us, and the only way in which we can see one another. Perhaps the gods are above this, but in their mercy, they have given us the guise of bodies."
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Source: Margaret George (2010). “The Memoirs of Cleopatra: A Novel”, p.751, Macmillan
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