Lesesaal

Ennead I.2 [19]: On virtues

Plotinus

It comments on the formula of the Theaetetus (176b): to flee from here is to become like God. It distinguishes the civic virtues, which order the passions, from the purificatory virtues, which separate the soul from the body, and from the virtues of the soul already turned to Intellect; the divine has no virtues but is their model.