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

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Plotinus: "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's Quotations

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Another	Beautiful	Beauty	Because
Desirable	Going	Identical	Knowing
Loved	Order	Ourselves	Over
Possess	Selfignorance	True	Ugliness
Ugly

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