Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
PLOTINUSAll things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
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Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
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Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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As in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life.
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Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful.
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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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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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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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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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