Blessed be God who has given us an intellect that cannot be filled within time. Because the intellect's desire does not attain its end, the intellect perceives itself, from its temporally insatiable desire, as above incorruptible time and immortal, and it knows that it can be satisfied by the desired intellectual life only in the enjoyment of the best and maximum and unfailing good.
(p. 203)
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