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.
PLOTINUSWithdraw into yourself and look.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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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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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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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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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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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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