“A wicked man no less than a Sage may save the country.” The city gets the same rescue either way. So the good of an act can’t live in its result. It lives in the inner state of the one who acts.
From The Enneads by Plotinus
“A wicked man no less than a Sage may save the country.” The city gets the same rescue either way. So the good of an act can’t live in its result. It lives in the inner state of the one who acts.
From The Enneads by Plotinus
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