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1.5 Time and Happiness

Very short this time
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Does happiness increase with Time?
-> no
- true happiness is an unchanging state, you aren't happier through adding all the time in which you are happy
- ontology vs. telos

Some past experiences have advantages to maintain happiness
- Memory of formerly attained wisdom and virtue
- Memories of pleasure, to reassure the Proficient that he doesn't have to "roam far and wide" for experiences that are nothing to do with his inner happiness

To put Happiness in actions is to put it in things that are outside virtue and the Soul

(paraphrasing) "The Soul's expression in wisdom, a contemplative operation within itself, alone is Happiness,"
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Seems to be an afterthought of the previous chapter. This tells me Plotinus was confident in what he wrote, since this kind of feels like quibbling.