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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE THIRD ENNEAD: THIRD TRACTATE: Section 2

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2. Circumstances are not sovereign over the good of life, for they are themselves moulded by their priors and come in as members of a sequence. The Leading-Principle holds all the threads while the minor agents, the individuals, serve according to their own capacities, as in a war the generalissimo lays down the plan and his subordinates do their best to its furtherance.

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE THIRD ENNEAD: THIRD TRACTATE: Section 2

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