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• ‟ Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

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• ‟ A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

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• ‟ Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

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• ‟ Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

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• ‟ Reason in man is rather like God in the world.

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• ‟ Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.

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• ‟ Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.

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• ‟ Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.

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• ‟ It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.

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