Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
PLOTINUSIf 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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We may treat of the Soul as in the body – whether it be set above it or actually within it – since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation.
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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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A dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
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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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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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