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Sacred Texts: The Classics

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIRST ENNEAD: FIFTH TRACTATE...

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10. But, it may be said, length of time produces an abundance of good actions missed by the man whose attainment of the happy state is recent- if indeed we can think at all of a state of happiness where good actions have been few. Now to make multiplicity, whether in time or in action, essential to Happiness is to put it together by combining non-existents, represented by the past, with some one thing that actually is.