If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
PLOTINUSBeing is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
More Plotinus Quotes
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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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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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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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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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