Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
PLOTINUSMankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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Become vision itself.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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Until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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