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.
PLOTINUSNever 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.
More Plotinus Quotes
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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.
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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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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