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The sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.

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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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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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