"I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them."

"The intellectual love of God is the very love of God with which God loves himself, not insofar as he is infinite, but insofar as he can be explicated through the human mind's essence, considered under…"

"It is impossible for a man to be affected by any emotion unless he imagines something which excludes the existence of an external cause of that emotion."

"The highest good of those who follow virtue is common to all, and all can equally participate in it."

"All things are determined by the necessity of the divine nature to exist and act in a certain way."