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Meister Eckhart Theologian, Philosopher
Soul

"God is in all things, but so far as God is Divine and so far as He is rational, God is nowhere so properly as in the soul - in the innermost of the soul"

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Michael J. Silverstein Businessman, Author
Soul

"Consumers are time constrained, budget restricted and less loved than they would like. Give them a wonderful experience and they will share it. Capture their soul and win big time."

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Michel de Montaigne Philosopher, Writer
Soul

"It is for little souls, that truckle under the weight of affairs, not to know how clearly to disengage themselves, and not to know how to lay them aside and take them up again."

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Michel de Montaigne Philosopher, Writer
Soul

"Vice leaves repentance in the soul, like an ulcer in the flesh, which is always scratching and lacerating itself; for reason effaces all other griefs and sorrows, but it begets that of repentance."

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Michel de Montaigne Philosopher, Writer
Soul

"To make judgements about great and lofty things, a soul of the same stature is needed; otherwise we ascribe to them that vice which is our own."

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Michel de Montaigne Philosopher, Writer
Soul

"Fortune does us neither good nor hurt; she only presents us the matter, and the seed, which our soul, more powerfully than she, turns and applies as she best pleases; being the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition."

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Michel de Montaigne Philosopher, Writer
Soul

"The recognition of virtue is not less valuable from the lips of the man who hates it, since truth forces him to acknowledge it; and though he may be unwilling to take it into his inmost soul, he at least decks himself out in its trappings."

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Michel de Montaigne Philosopher, Writer
Soul

"For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and to educate my soul entirely through gentleness and freedom."

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Michel de Montaigne Philosopher, Writer
Soul

"It is a small soul, buried beneath the weight of affairs, that does not know how to get clean away from them, that cannot put them aside and pick them up again."

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Michel de Montaigne Philosopher, Writer
Soul

"As great enmities spring from great friendships, and mortal distempers from vigorous health, so do the most surprising and the wildest frenzies from the high and lively agitations of our souls."

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Michel de Montaigne Philosopher, Writer
Soul

"Socrates, who was a perfect model in all great qualities, ... hit on a body and face so ugly and so incongruous with the beauty of his soul, he who was so madly in love with beauty."

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