Sacred Texts: The Classics

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIRST ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTATE: Section 13

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13. The characteristic activities are not hindered by outer events but merely adapt themselves, remaining always fine, and perhaps all the finer for dealing with the actual. When he has to handle particular cases and things, he may not be able to put his vision into act without searching and thinking, but the one greatest principle is ever present to him, like a part of his being- most of all present, should he be even a victim in the much-talked-of Bull of Phalaris.

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIRST ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTATE: Section 13

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