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A beautiful soul has no other merit than its own existence
A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude
It is only to the individual that a soul is given
Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?
The soul never thinks without a picture
That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness
Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact
Our souls possess the unknown power of extending as well as contracting space
The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons
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