The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
PLOTINUSThe Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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We may treat of the Soul as in the body – whether it be set above it or actually within it – since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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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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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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