Let us flee then to the beloved Fatherland.

Let us flee then to the beloved Fatherland

Plotinus

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Plotinus

Born around 205 CE in Roman Egypt, Plotinus developed Plato's thought into a grand metaphysical system in which all reality emanates in stages from a supreme principle he called 'the One.' His major work, the Enneads, compiled by his pupil Porphyry, profoundly influenced Augustine, Islamic philosophy, and the intellectual tradition known as Neoplatonism.

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Source: エンネアデス 第1巻第6篇第8章 (Enneads I.6.8)Verified

Plotinus's Other Quotes

Strive to return the divine in yourself to the divine in all.

Evil, too, has its place within the scheme of the Good.

It is not I who conform to the stars; the stars conform to me.

Strip away everything.

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Strive to return the divine in yourself to the divine in all.

-- Plotinus

Strip away everything.

-- Plotinus

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