his friend to have all the good things he wants
strous vice which must necessarily torture and subdue anyone who is unwilling to be conquered in temporal things? It is better that a man should overcome us than that we should be overcome by envy or any other vice. xlvi, 86. He who has overcome his vices cannot be overcome by man either. Only he is overcome who has what he loves snatched from him by his adversary. He who loves only what cannot be snatched from him is indubitably unconquerable, and is tortured by no envy. He loves what many have come to know and to love, thereby deserving to be congratulated. For he loves God with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his mind, and his neighbour as himself. God does not grudge his becoming as he is himself.
Rather he even helps him as much as possible.
He cannot lose his neighbour whom he loves as himself, for he does not love even in himself the things that appear to the eyes or to any other bodily sense. So he has inward fellowship with him whom he loves as himself.
87. The rule of love is that one should wish his friend to have all the good things he wants to have himself, and should not wish the evils to befall his friend which he wishes to avoid himself. He shows this benevolence towards all men. No evil must be done to any. Love of one's neighbour worketh no evil (Rom.
13:10). Let us then love even our enemies as we are commanded, if we wish to be truly un-