Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body yet endures

You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts