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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SECOND ENNEAD: THIRD TRACTATE: Section 6

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6. But that this same Mars, or Aphrodite, in certain aspects should cause adulteries- as if they could thus, through the agency of human incontinence, satisfy their own mutual desires- is not such a notion the height of unreason? And who could accept the fancy that their happiness comes from their seeing each other in this or that relative position and not from their own settled nature?

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SECOND ENNEAD: THIRD TRACTATE: Section 6

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