"In corpore ipso quid forma est? nempe cuticula bene colorata?"
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In the body itself what is beauty save a little skin, well colored? — Opera, Introductio ad sapientiam, 61, vol. 2, cols. 72–3 (Basil, 1555), reported in William S. Walsh (ed.) The International Encyclopedia of Prose and Poetical Quotations (Philadelphia: John C. Winston Company, 1908) p. 76 — :Cf. Odo of Cluny
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Juan Luis Vives
Juan Luis Vives y March (Latin: Joannes Ludovicus Vives; 6 March 1493 – 6 May 1540) was a Valencian scholar and humanist who spent most of his adult life in the Southern Netherlands. His beliefs on the soul, insight into early medical practice, and perspective on emotions, memory and learning earned him the title of the "father" of modern psychology.
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