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PITHY QUOTE FROM Plotinus: Enneads
If they meant, by temperate living and an appropriate régime, they would be right and in accordance with all sound knowledge. But they assert diseases to be Spirit-Beings and boast of being able to expel them by formula: this pretension may enhance their importance with the crowd, gaping upon the powers of magicians; but they can never persuade the intelligent that disease arises otherwise than from such causes as overstrain, excess, deficiency, putrid decay, in a word some variation whether from within or from without.
The Works of Plotinus, The Second Ennead, IX. Against the Gnostics
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Plotinus. Head in white marble. One of four replicas which were all discovered in Ostia. The identification as Plotinus is plausible but not proven. Ostiense Museum, Ostia Antica, Rome
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List of ContentsAuthor / Creator: Plotinus.
1. The First Ennead |
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