Doc. of Life (Dick) n. 89

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89. So far as any one loves truth, so far he desires to know it, and so far he is affected in heart when he finds it; nor does any other attain to wisdom. Moreover, so far as he loves to do the truth, so far is he sensible of the pleasantness of the light in which truth is. It is similar with the other virtues mentioned above; as with sincerity and justice with him who shuns all kinds of theft; with chastity and purity with him who shuns all kinds of adultery; and with love and charity with him who shuns all kinds of murder; and so on. But he who is immersed in their opposites knows nothing of these virtues, when yet everything is in them.


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