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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?

— Plotinus The First Ennead (250)

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Let us, therefore, re-ascend to the good itself, which every soul desires; and in which it can alone find perfect repose.

All teems with symbol; the wise man is the man who in any one thing can read another.

The First Ennead (250)

It is by participation of species that we call every sensible object beautiful.

What, then, must be the condition of that being, who beholds the beautiful itself?

Perhaps, the good and the beautiful are the same, and must be investigated by one and the same process; and in like manner the base and the evil.

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