5p27d.md (610B)
1 The highest virtue of the mind is to know God (IV. 2 xxviii.), or to understand things by the third kind of knowledge 3 (V. xxv.), and this virtue is greater in proportion as the mind 4 knows things more by the said kind of knowledge (V. xxiv.): 5 consequently, he who knows things by this kind of knowledge 6 passes to the summit of human perfection, and is therefore (Def. 7 of the Emotions, ii.) affected by the highest pleasure, such 8 pleasure being accompanied by the idea of himself and his own 9 virtue; thus (Def. of the Emotions, xxv.), from this kind of 10 knowledge arises the highest possible acquiescence. Q.E.D. 11 12