An idea from The Enneads

Picture gold caked in mud. The mud hides the gold but doesn’t change it. Scrape it off and the gold is simply gold again. A soul turned ugly is dirtied by what it took on, and it is still gold underneath.

From The Enneads by Plotinus

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