NOT EVEN THE MEMORY OF VIRTUE INCREASES HAPPINESS. - Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 3 / In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods - 61 - Plotinus

NOT EVEN MEMORIES OF THE PAST INCREASE HAPPINESS.LENGTH OF TIME IS OF NO IMPORTANCE, NOT EVEN AS OPPORTUNITY OF VIRTUE.

NOT EVEN THE MEMORY OF VIRTUE INCREASES HAPPINESS.

9. Could not the memory of virtuous actions contribute to happiness? No: for such a memory cannot exist in a man who has no virtue at present, and who thereby is driven to seek out the memory of past virtues.