So it follows that those who have reason have freedom to will or not to will, although this freedom is not equal in all of them. [...] human souls are more free when they persevere in the contemplation of the mind of God, less free when they descend to the corporeal, and even less free when they are entirely imprisoned in earthly flesh and blood.

Good men seek it by the natural means of the virtues; evil men, however, try to achieve the same goal by a variety of concupiscences, and that is surely an unnatural way of seeking the good. Don't you agree?

I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.

For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy

One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.

If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?

So it follows that those who have reason have freedom to will or not to will, although this freedom is not equal in all of them. [...] human souls are more free when they persevere in the contemplation of the mind of God, less free when they descend to the corporeal, and even less free when they are entirely imprisoned in earthly flesh and blood.