HAPPINESS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH DURATION OF TIME.
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Plotinus and Guthrie, Kenneth Sylvan
1. Does happiness increase with duration of time? No: for the feeling of happiness exists only in the present. The memory of past happiness could not add anything to happiness itself. Happiness is not a word, but a state of soul. But a state of soul is a present (experience), such as, for instance, the actualization of life.