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Science without conscience is only ruin of the soul.
François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel / 



Science without conscience is only ruin of the soul.

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Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search thereof when he is grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.
Epicurus - Letter to Menoeceus / 






For souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.
Pierre Corneille - Le Cid / 



For souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.




Do not trouble yourself, make yourself simple.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations / 






At any moment you choose you can retire within yourself. Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations / 






Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
Augustine of Hippo / 






'No soul is willing to be robbed of truth', he says. The same holds of justice, too, of temperance, of kindness, and the like. It is most necessary to remember this continually, for thus you will be more gentle to all men.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations / 






Philosophy is the culture of the soul.
Marcus Tullius Cicero / 






One must never let the fire go out in one's soul but keep it burning.
Vincent Willem van Gogh / 






Confidence raises the soul.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education / 






What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
Robert Green Ingersoll / 






Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle / 






Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
Gérard de Nerval / 



Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.

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Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
Edvard Munch / 



Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

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They change the sky, not their soul, who run across the sea.
Quintus Horatius Flaccus - Epistles / 






Go, nothing is better for the soul
Than to dispel some sadness from a soul!

Paul Verlaine - Ecoutez la chanson bien douce / 






A beautiful soul has no other merit than its own existence.
Friedrich Schiller - On Grace and Dignity / 






Only the passions, the great passions, can lift the soul to the greatest things.
Denis Diderot - Philosophical Thoughts / 






The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations / 






Intelligence is the eye of the soul, not its strength. Its strength is in the heart, that is, in the passions.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims / 






As the sun is the light of the day, so the soul is the light of the awakened body. As the moon is the light of the night, so is the soul the light of the sleeping body.
Hildegard of Bingen - Causae et Curae / 






And days together stand I on the shore,
Seeking, in my soul, the land of Greece.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Iphigenia in Tauris / 






Patience reveals the soul's hidden riches.
Publilius Syrus - Sentences / 



Patience reveals the soul's hidden riches.

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The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
Ludwig Wittgenstein / 






Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
Karl Marx / 






Things do not lay hold of the soul.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations / 






In a great soul everything is great.
Blaise Pascal - Discourse on the Passion of Love / 






Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education / 






Eyes are the windows of the soul.
Hildegard of Bingen / 



Eyes are the windows of the soul.




I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
Victor Hugo - Les Misérables / 










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