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THE HIGHER VIRTUES IMPLY THE LOWER; BUT NOT CONVERSELY.

Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition Plotinus and Guthrie, Kenneth Sylvan
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The possessor of the higher virtues necessarily possesses the potentiality for the inferior virtues; but the possessor of the lower does not, conversely, possess the higher. Such are the characteristics of the virtuous man.

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

EVEN THE LOWER VIRTUES ARE MUTUALLY RELATED. PRUDENCE TO DECIDE WHETHER IT IS POSSIBLE TO POSSESS VIRTUES UNSYMMETRICALLY?