Sacred Texts: The Classics

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIRST ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTATE: Section 7

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7. Then why are these conditions sought and their contraries repelled by the man established in happiness? Here is our answer: These 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…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIRST ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTATE: Section 7

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