42. That is, then, evidence of no ordinary
prudence, which virtue is thus defined by the wise. The first of
good things is to know God, and with a pious mind to reverence Him as
true and divine, and to delight in that loveable and desirable beauty
of the eternal Truth with the whole affection of the mind. And
the second consists in deriving from that divine and heavenly source of
nature, love towards our neighbours, since even the wise of this world
have borrowed from our laws. For they never could have obtained
those points for the discipline of men, except from that heavenly fount
of the divine law.