{"collection":"Sacred Texts: The Classics","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_cla_plotenn_enn039_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_cla_plotenn_enn039_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_cla_plotenn_enn039_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/plotenn/enn039.htm","summary":"7. Then why are these conditions sought and their contraries repelled by the man established in happiness? Here is our answer:\nThese more pleasant conditions cannot, it is true, add any particle towards the Sage's felicity: but they do serve towards the integrity of his being, while the presence of the contraries tends against his Being or complicates the Term: it is not that the Sage can be so easily deprived of the Term achieved but simply that he that holds the highest good desires to have\u2026","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIRST ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTATE: Section 7","tradition":"Sacred Texts: The Classics","translated_text":null,"word_count":645}