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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIRST ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTATE: Section 16

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16. Those that refuse to place the Sage aloft in the Intellectual Realm but drag him down to the accidental, dreading accident for him, have substituted for the Sage we have in mind another person altogether; they offer us a tolerable sort of man and they assign to him a life of mingled good and ill, a case, after all, not easy to conceive. But admitting the possibility of such a mixed state, it could not be deserved to be called a life of happiness; it misses the Great, both in the dignity of…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIRST ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTATE: Section 16

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