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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTATE: Section 34

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34. For ourselves, while whatever in us belongs to the body of the All should be yielded to its action, we ought to make sure that we submit only within limits, realizing that the entire man is not thus bound to it: intelligent servitors yield a part of themselves to their masters but in part retain their personality, and are thus less absolutely at beck and call, as not being slaves, not utterly chattels. The changing configurations within the All could not fail to be produced as they are…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTATE: Section 34

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