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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTATE: Section 21

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21. That this is the phase of the human being in which desire takes its origin is shown by observation of the different stages of life; in childhood, youth, maturity, the bodily desires differ; health or sickness also may change them, while the [psychic] faculty is of course the same through all: the evidence is clear that the variety of desire in the human being results from the fact that he is a corporeal entity, a living body subject to every sort of vicissitude. The total movement of desire…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTATE: Section 21

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