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God says to man: 'Be thou thyself, and I shall be thine.'

An external thing that is knowable [is knowable] by means of something internal that is consubstantial [with the rational soul].

Love is subsequent to knowledge and to the thing known, for nothing unknown is loved.

Time is to eternity as an image is to its exemplar, and those things which are temporal bear a resemblance to those things which are eternal.

Through itself the soul arrives at all harmony that is perceptible in otherness-just as through what is internal the soul arrives at what is external.

The fact is that man has no longing for any other nature but desires only to be perfect in his own.

All we know of the truth is that the absolute truth, such as it is, is beyond our reach.

For all the [body's] members seek nothing except inseparable union with the intellect, as with their beginning, ultimate good, and everlasting life.

In humility alone lies true greatness, and knowledge and wisdom are profitable only in so far as our lives are governed by them.

Since beings desire to exist, because to exist is a good thing: they desire the One without which they cannot exist.

All things are in the intended endpoint, and this mode of being is called will or desire.

In creating the world, God used arithmetic, geometry, and likewise astronomy.

That that which is neither true nor truthlike does not exist. Now, whatever exists, exists otherwise in something else than it exists in itself.

Divinity is in all things in such a way that all things are in divinity.