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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIRST ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTAT...

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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIRST ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTAT... Similar meaning (73%) Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. X: Dogmatic Treatises, Ethical Works, and Sermons.: Chapter I. Happiness in life is to be gained by living virtuously, inasmuch as thus a Christian, whilst despising glory and the favour of men, desires to please God alone in what he does. Similar meaning (68%) The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIRST ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTATE: Section 11 Similar meaning (65%) The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIRST ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTATE: Section 4 Similar meaning (65%)
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3. Now if we draw no distinction as to kinds of life, everything that lives will be capable of happiness, and those will be effectively happy who possess that one common gift of which every living thing is by nature receptive. We could not deny it to the irrational whilst allowing it to the rational.

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