Hide your life and spread your spirit.
It is spirit that rules the world, not intelligence.
My spirit yearns for action, my breath for freedom.
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
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.
A healthy mind in a healthy body.
The first and fundamental resistance is that of the spirit. It means resisting the intimidation of any lie asserted as truth, the contagion of any collective intoxication.
There are mirrors for the face, but none for the mind.
The conviction of the mind does not always bring along with it that of the heart.
All things are ready, if our mind be so.
Anger is the wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
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.
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The spirit of a language reveals itself most clearly in its untranslatable words.
Beauty is no quality in things themselves : It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them ; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
One cannot imagine how much wit is necessary in order never to seem ridiculous.
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.
What Nature is to the mind she is also to the body.
The mind is often at the heart that what the library of a castle is to the master's person.
There is something in man that even the spirit of man does not know.
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.
What grace is to the body good sense is to the mind.
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.
A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye.
True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body the two are ever united.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
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