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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE THIRD ENNEAD: SECOND TRACTATE: Section 4

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4. That water extinguishes fire and fire consumes other things should not astonish us. The thing destroyed derived its being from outside itself: this is no case of a self-originating substance being annihilated by an external; it rose on the ruin of something else, and thus in its own ruin it suffers nothing strange; and for every fire quenched, another is kindled.

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE THIRD ENNEAD: SECOND TRACTATE: Section 4

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