id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 29510 Plotinus An Essay on the Beautiful, from the Greek of Plotinus .txt text/plain 8991 331 60 of the beautiful itself, even while connected with a corporeal nature, some time before even the liberal soul can recognize the beautiful things, as bodies, are doubtless beautiful, not from the natures of the respect, to the same bodies, they appear beautiful to one person, and the soul, and opens her eye to the perception of beauty, existing in beauties of sense, which, like images and shadows flowing into which the soul beholds such real beauties. purity for the possession of beauty; so the soul, when separated from is, therefore, rightly said, that the beauty and good of the soul bodies themselves participate of beauty from the soul, which, as But they alone pursue true good, who rise to intelligible beauty, and fair colours, and beautiful corporeal forms; who is deprived of is this beauty of a worthy soul to be perceived? matter," says he, "is neither soul, nor intellect, nor life, nor form, nor ./cache/29510.txt ./txt/29510.txt