Saint Paul Hymn to Love

I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect; but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood. So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. (I Corinthians 13) 
Saint Paul’s Hymn to Love

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Empedocles

(Wiki)
'For before now I have been at some time boy and girl, bush, bird, and a mute fish in the sea' (fr. B 117)

Empedocles (encyclopedia of philosophy)

Plotinus

THE SIX ENNEADS, by Plotinus

THE SIXTH ENNEAD: SEVENTH TRACTATE

HOW THE MULTIPLICITY OF THE IDEAL-FORMS CAME INTO BEING:
AND UPON THE GOOD.

(recomended for those who want to understand what God it is or better it is not. Plotinus is  neoplatonist and he is difficult to read but sure is understandable for those who have philosophy background)  

Philosophica quotes

Philosophy is the study of death ... The Philosopher writes when he is in rest ... (Plato)
One day he was reviled, he tried to slip away; the other pursued him, asking, "Why do you run away?" "Because," said he, "as it is your privilege to use foul language, so it is my privilege not to listen." (Aristippus 435-350 B.C)

Heraiscos was a philosopher that he could distinguish the dead from the living statues with a self-instructive method. As soon as he was coming in contact with a statue, a strucking feeling in his heart were happening from the deism, and sprang the soul and his body as if it was occupied by the god. If it didn't become such something, inanimate was that statue and without divine inspiration. ( SUIDAE LEXIKON)

Timon (5th B.C) was Athenian affluent citizen, which became famous for his misanthropy. Ancient writers reports him as example of misanthropy Ploutarhos reports. When Timon were presented in the “church of municipality” and after he went up in the step, he said in the amazed Athenians: "Men  Athenians, you know that I have a property in the mountain of Hymettus and that in this exists a fig tree, by which many until were now hunged. Because therefore, I intend to build a hut and I decide to cut the tree, I want to announce to you, in order to hurry to hung, those from you they want ". The subject of Timon and his misanthropy becomes a reason and in Lucianos that offends one more time the boiling hot problem of wealth, poverty and human dignity. Source: (in Greek) Wikipedia 

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