For our more respectable parts have no need: but God has arranged the body together, having given more abundant honor to that part which lacked:
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Cicero, in his 1st liber de Off. speaking of the human body, says, Natura quæ formam nostram atque figuram, in qua esset species honesta, eam posuit in promptu; quæ partes autem corporis ad naturæ necessitatem datæ, aspectum essent deformem habituræ atque turpem, eas contexit atque abdidit. (Calmet)