Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Friends and Friendship

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Reason

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.