We should love others truly, for their own sakes rather than our own.
The happy man in this life needs friends.
So, to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power.
Charity brings to life again those who are spiritually dead.
The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.
The meaning of what is said is according to the motive for saying it: because things are not subject to speech, but speech to things. Therefore we should take account of the motive of the lawgiver, rather than of his very words.