“Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful: he cuts away here, he smoothes there, he makes this line lighter, this other purer, until a lovely face has grown upon his work.”

About Plotinus

Philosopher • Roman

Plotinus was a major Hellenistic philosopher, born in Roman Egypt, who lived and taught in Rome. He is widely regarded as the founder of Neoplatonism, developing a complex spiritual cosmology involving the One, the...