31. "The third category [of virtues] pertains to the soul that is already purged and cleansed and is simply and purely washed of every stain of this world. In this regard, the role of prudence is not only to prefer divine things as the result of a choice, but to know nothing but them, and to look upon them as upon nothing else. The role of temperance is not only to repress earthly cravings, but to forget them completely; that of fortitude, to ignore passions instead of overcoming them, so that a man be incapable of anger and desire nothing; that of justice, to have such mental intercourse with high and divine things that a perpetual alliance be preserved with them by imitating them. 31. «Tertiae sunt purgati iam defaecatique animi et ab omni mundi huius aspergine presse pureque detersi. Illic prudentiae est divina non quasi in electione praeferre, sed sola nosse et haec tanquam nihil sit aliud, intueri; temperantiae, terrenas cupiditates non reprimere, sed penitus oblivisci; fortitudinis, passiones ignorare, non vincere, ut nesciat irasci, cupiat nihil; iustitiae, ita cum superna et divina mente sociari, ut servet perpetuum cum ea foedus imitando».
d. Exemplary
32. "The fourth category [of virtues] represents the exemplary, which exist in the mind of God, called vous as we said, and from the example of which all the others derive in an orderly manner. For if it is a matter of faith that the ideas of other things are found in the mind of God, much more so the ideas of the virtues. In this regard, prudence is the very mind of God; temperance, the fact that this mind is turned upon itself by a perpetual intention; fortitude, the fact that it is always the same and is never changed in anything whatsoever; justice, the fact that by an eternal law, it is not deflected from the continuation of its sempiternal operation. "These are the genera of the virtues, four times four in number, which, more than in any other way, are distinguished in the passions, " 32. «Quartae sunt exemplares, quae in ipsa divina mente consistunt, quam diximus mun vocari, a quarum exemplo reliquae omnes per ordinem defluunt. Nam si rerum aliarum, multo magis virtutum ideas esse in mente divina credendum est. Illic prudentia est ipsa mens divina; temperantia, quod in se perpetua intentione conversa est; fortitudo, quod semper idem est nec aliquando mutatur; iustitia, quod perenni lege a sempiterna operis sui continuatione non flectitur. -- Haec sunt quaternarum quatuor genera virtutum, quae praeter cetera maximam in passionibus habent differentiam sui». Hucusque Plotinus.