“It must be remembered that sensations of the ugly and evil impress us more violently than those of what is agreeable and yet leave less knowledge as residue of the shock: sickness makes the rougher mark, but health, tranquilly present, explains itself better; it takes the first place, it is the natural thing, it belongs to our being; illness is alien, unnatural, and thus makes itself felt by its very incongruity, while the other conditions are native and we take no notice. Such being our nature, we are most completely aware of ourselves when we are most completely identified with the object of our knowledge.”
-Plotinus, “Ennead V, Eighth Tractate”
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