Isles of the Blessed
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the Isles of the Blessed
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On Moral Ends
Mythical paradise imagined by ancient philosophers as the eternal home of the wise, devoted wholly to inquiry and learning.
And the old philosophers indeed feign, in the Isles of the Blessed, what the life of the wise will be like, whom, freed from all care, requiring no necessary support or preparation of life, they think will do nothing else but spend all their time in inquiring and learning, in the knowledge of nature.
Meditations
Mythic paradisial place used as a figure for the state of one who abides in virtuous self-naming.
and if you can abide in them, abide, as one removed to some Isles of the Blessed.