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Commentary of Proclus the Successor on Plato's

First Alcibiades : ~

We consider the most sovereign and stable principle of the Platonic dialogues, and indeed of all philosophical contemplation, to be the knowledge of our own essence. For we would not be able to hypothesize what is truly good for us, nor what our intended purpose is, if we did not first learn these things more accurately. For it is natural for each of the beings that, just as their essence differs, so too does their perfection. To some, it is? ...? to others, it is the very attenuation of their essence. For from the same hearth and first source, all things spring toward their own, as the most divine Plato says. For the parts of the essence, and the goal of each action, constitute perfection. Those who tend toward good hopes, both more ancient and more honorable, and the essence from the beginning, and the existence of things—just as each participates in being, more dimly or more clearly—will perceive the good in that same manner. Those beings that are primary possess it in a greater and more perfect way; those arranged indirectly possess it according to their own order; and the last of beings draw the smallest emanations. Thus, the distribution of goods is always discovered to come, in a way, from the gods and providence. For when this occurs, the goods do not cease, and each part contains the necessary ...

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