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SUICIDE IS UNADVISABLE, FOR TWO REASONS.

Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition Plotinus and Guthrie, Kenneth Sylvan
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If there be an appointed time for the life of each of us, it is not well to forestall the decree of Providence, unless, as we have said,328 under absolute compulsion.
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Last, if rank obtained above depend on the state obtaining at the time of exit from the body, no man should separate himself from it so long as he might still achieve progress.329

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Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 1 In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods, Project Gutenberg eBook #42930

SUICIDE UNAVAILABLE EVEN TO AVOID INSANITY. DISTINCTION BETWEEN ESSENCE AND BEING.