God has no need for our worship. It is we who need to show our gratitude for what we have received.

Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.

If there were some solitary or feral man, the passions of the soul would be sufficient for him; by them he would be conformed to things in order that he might have knowledge of them. But because man is naturally political and social, there is need for one man to make his conceptions known to others, which is done with speech. So significant speech was needed if men were to live together. Which is why those of different tongues do not easily live together.

Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself.

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

One aspect of neighbourly love is that we must not merely will our neighbours good, but actually work to bring it about.