Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
PLOTINUSBeing is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
More Plotinus Quotes
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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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But coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
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Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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