Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
PLOTINUSWithdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful.
More Plotinus Quotes
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From the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body’s experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
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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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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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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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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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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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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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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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Become vision itself.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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