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

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7. But if we are to consider only the present and may not call in the past to make the total, why do we not reckon so in the case of time itself, where, in fact, we do not hesitate to add the past to the present and call the total greater? Why not suppose a quantity of happiness equivalent to a quantity of time?

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

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