“For, in the language of Heraclitus, the virtuous soul is pure and unmixed light, springing from the body as a flash of lightning darts from the cloud. But the soul that is carnal and immersed in sense, like a heavy and dank vapor, can with difficulty be kindled, and caused to raise its eyes heavenward.” SoulBodyLightEyeLanguagePureDifficultyRaisesCloudsHeavySensualityVirtuousFlashLightningVaporDartsDank Author:Plutarch
“Beauty has so many charms, one knows not how to speak against it; and when it happens that a graceful figure is the habitation of a virtuous soul, when the beauty of the face speaks out the modesty and humility of the mind, and the justness of the proportion raises our thoughts up to the heart and wisdom of the great Creator, something may be allowed it,--and something to the embellishments which set it off; and yet, when the whole apology is read, it will be found at last that beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.” KnowsMindHeartMaySoulWholeHappensLastsFacesFoundSpeakBeautyFiguresHumilityRaisesCreatorGloriousCharmProportionApologyVirtuousModestyOur ThoughtsSpeaks OutEmbellishment Book:The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author