Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
Memory is the scribe of the soul.
Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.
Body am I, and soul'–so says the child. And why should one not speak like children?
He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
Now do you think one can acquire any appreciable knowledge of the nature of the soul without knowing the nature of the whole?
What the inner voice says Will not disappoint the hoping soul.
To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.
Reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls.
The assaults of adversity do not weaken the spirit of a brave man. It always maintains its poise, and it gives its own colour to everything that happens.
There are only two remedies for the suffering of the soul: hope and patience.
Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul;
The individual soul should be in agreement with the world soul.
Love is the force that transforms and improves the Soul of the World.
Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
Great souls endure in silence.
This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.
It is difficult to define love; all we can say is, that in the soul it is a desire to rule, in the mind it is a sympathy, and in the body it is a hidden and delicate wish to possess what we love—Plus many mysteries.
When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained by ambition, and not by their mind; so that PLUS a great vanity, heroes are made like other men.
Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
Find quotes in french, in german, or in latin. Click on the translation icon.
