"... this idea, that humans are essentially weak creatures, is actually deeply woven into a lot of the ways in which humans think about our bodies."

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Every man is of importance to himself, and, therefore, in his own opinion, to others; and, supposing the world already acquainted with his pleasures and his pains, is perhaps the first to publish injuries or misfortunes which had never been known unless related by himself, and at which those that hear them will only laugh, for no man sympathises with the sorrows of vanity.

— Samuel Johnson