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Blessed is the man who loves spiritual sayings. This distinguishes us from the dumb. What distinguishes us from them is not physical properties, not food, not drink, not housing, not life: we have all this in common with the dumb; but how does man differ from dumb people? In a word. That is why man is called a verbal animal. As the body is nourished, so is the soul: the body with bread, and the soul with words. If you saw a man eating a stone, would you say that this is a man? So exactly, if you see someone feeding not on the word, but on objects alien to the word, you will say: he has ceased even to be a man, because the nobility of a person is proven by what he is fed with (4).
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