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Beauty Quotes by Plotinus
- The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
- Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too, as in certain combinations so words and in all kinds…
- We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order...
- Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
- 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…
- Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself…
- Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true…
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