Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
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.
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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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But coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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