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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: FIFTH TRACTATE: Section 13

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13. The Supreme, as the Absolute Good and not merely a good being or thing, can contain nothing, since there is nothing that could be its good. Anything it could contain must be either good to it or not good; but in the supremely and primally Good there can be nothing not good; nor can the Absolute Good be a container to the Good: containing, then, neither the good nor the not good it contains nothing and, containing nothing, it is alone: it is void of all but itself.

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: FIFTH TRACTATE: Section 13

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