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Ennead 1, Tractate 5: On Whether Well-Being Increases with Time, Section 9

9. But is there not something to be said for the memory of the various forms of beauty?

That is the resource of a man whose life is without beauty in the present, so that, for lack of it now, he grasps at the memory of what has been.