He who knows does not feel wonder. It could not be said that God experiences wonder, for God knows in the most absolute and perfect way.

What distinguishes - in both senses of that word - contemplation is rather this: it is a knowing which is inspired by love. "Without love there would be no contemplation." Contemplation is a loving attainment of awareness. It is intuition of the beloved object.

The "supreme good" and its attainment -- that is happiness. And joy is: response to happiness.

To be conscious of gratitude is to acknowledge a gift.

The brave man uses wrath for his own act, above all in attack, 'for it is peculiar to wrath to pounce upon evil. Thus fortitude and wrath work directly upon each other.

The delight we take in our senses is an implicit desire to know the ultimate reason for things, the highest cause. The desire for wisdom that philosophy etymologically is is a desire for the highest or divine causes. Philosophy culminates in theology. All other knowledge contains the seeds of contemplation of the divine.

All just order in the world is based on this, that man give man what is his due.