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 to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
- Plotinus
Never a truer word said.....
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- Plotinus
Never a truer word said.....
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Beauty walks hand in hand with mortality, for why else do the gods envy us?