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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIRST ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTATE: Section 14

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14. For man, and especially the Sage, is not the Couplement of soul and body: the proof is that man can be disengaged from the body and disdain its nominal goods. It would be absurd to think that happiness begins and ends with the living-body: happiness is the possession of the good of life: it is centred therefore in Soul, is an Act of the Soul- and not of all the Soul at that: for it certainly is not characteristic of the vegetative soul, the soul of growth; that would at once connect it with…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIRST ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTATE: Section 14

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