All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
Tractatus de intellectus emendatione. Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1016
Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact obtained.
trans. by R.H.M. Elwes (1955).
... I believe that, if a triangle could speak, it would say, in like manner, that God is eminently triangular, while a circle would say that the divine nature is eminently circular. Thus each would ascribe to God its own attributes, would assume itself to be like God, and look on everything else as ill-shaped.
Source: http://home.earthlink.net/~tneff/let6056.htm
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