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Hide your life and spread your spirit.”
Victor Hugo
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Les rayons et les ombres
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It is spirit that rules the world, not intelligence.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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My spirit yearns for action, my breath for freedom.”
Friedrich Schiller
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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.”
René Descartes
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Discourse on the Method
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The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.”
Gautama Buddha
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A healthy mind in a healthy body.”
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis
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The conviction of the mind does not always bring along with it that of the heart.”
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues
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Reflexions and Maxims
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All things are ready, if our mind be so.”
William Shakespeare
mind
Anger is the wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
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But in the loneliest desert the second metamorphosis occurs: the spirit here becomes a lion; it wants to capture freedom and be lord in its own desert.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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Image attribution: Background photo by Roger Le Guen on flickr
The spirit of a language reveals itself most clearly in its untranslatable words.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Language
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One cannot imagine how much wit is necessary in order never to seem ridiculous.”
Nicolas Chamfort
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Maximes et pensées
mind
What Nature is to the mind she is also to the body.”
Henry David Thoreau
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The mind is often at the heart that what the library of a castle is to the master's person.”
Nicolas Chamfort
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Maximes et pensées
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There is something in man that even the spirit of man does not know.”
Augustine of Hippo
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Confessions
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Beauty is no quality in things themselves : It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them ; and each mind perceives a different beauty.”
David Hume
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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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nature
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.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
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Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims
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What grace is to the body good sense is to the mind.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
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Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims
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A man often believes himself leader when he is led; as his mind endeavours to reach one goal, his heart insensibly drags him towards another.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
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Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims
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mind
A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye.”
William Shakespeare
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
mind
True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body the two are ever united.”
Wilhelm von Humboldt
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mind
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”
Albert Camus
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