THIS UNIVERSAL WISDOM IS PERMANENT BECAUSE TIMELESS.

We are therefore justified in asserting the rule of one and the same

wisdom. This wisdom is universal; it is the permanent wisdom of the

world; it is multiple and varied, and at the same time it is one,

because it is the wisdom of the living Being which is one, and is the

greatest of all. It is invariable, in spite of the multiplicity of

its works; it constitutes the Reason which is one, and still is all

things simultaneously. If it were not all things, it would, instead of

being the wisdom of the universe, be the wisdom of only the latter and

individual things.

Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 2 In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods · 第 200 / 381 题