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About Cleobulus

Portrait of Cleobulus

Cleobulus (; Greek: Κλεόβουλος ὁ Λίνδιος, Kleoboulos ho Lindios; fl. 6th century BC) was a Greek poet and a native of Lindos. He is one of the Seven Sages of Greece.

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Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.

Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort.

All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power.

—Allegra Kent

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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular one and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

—Iris Murdoch

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The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.

—Thomas A. Edison