Beauty

When one discerns in the bodily the Idea that binds and masters matter of itself formless and indeed recalcitrant to formation , and when one also detects an uncommon form stamped upon those that are common, then at a stroke one grasps the scattered multiplicity, gathers it together, and draws it within oneself to present it there to one's interior and indivisible oneness as concordant, congenial, a friend.

-Plotinus