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Sacred Texts: The Classics

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIRST ENNEAD: FIFTH TRACTATE: Section 4

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4. Still the one life has known pleasure longer than the other? But pleasure cannot be fairly reckoned in with Happiness- unless indeed by pleasure is meant the unhindered Act [of the true man], in which case this pleasure is simply our "Happiness." And even pleasure, though it exist continuously, has never anything but the present; its past is over and done with.

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