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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SECOND ENNEAD: NINTH TRACTATE: Section 9

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9. Wealth and poverty, and all inequalities of that order, are made ground of complaint. But this is to ignore that the Sage demands no equality in such matters: he cannot think that to own many things is to be richer or that the powerful have the better of the simple; he leaves all such preoccupations to another kind of man.

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SECOND ENNEAD: NINTH TRACTATE: Section 9

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