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Own Quotes by Plotinus
- We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order...
- We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it, as the eye waits on…
- 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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