In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
PLOTINUSWe 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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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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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head.
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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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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