Plutarch Quotes

A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk's bill, no sharp talon, no roughness of teeth, no such strength of stomach or heat of digestion, as can be sufficient to convert or alter such heavy and fleshy fare.

Plutarch

• Stomach
• Sufficient
• Human Body
• Digestion
• Ravenousness

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• A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk's bill, no sharp talon, no roughness of teeth, no such strength of stomach or heat of digestion, as can be sufficient to convert or alter such heavy and fleshy fare.

  

  Plutarch
  • Stomach
  • Sufficient
  • Human Body