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In order to prove whether the spirit can speak or not, it is necessary in the first place to define what a voice is and how it is generated
We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul
A soul which is conversant with virtue is like an ever flowing source, for it is pure and tranquil and potable and sweet and communicative (social) and rich and harmless and free from mischief
The only substance properly so called is the soul
Any landscape is a condition of the spirit
It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out
There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul
Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish
The principal thing in this world is to keep one's soul aloft
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul
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