Life34.从这些前提可推知：任何人避恶如罪到何等程度，就热爱真理到何等程度，因为他在何等程度上处于良善，如前一章所示。另一方面也可推知：任何人不避恶如罪到何等程度，就不热爱真理到何等程度，因为他在何等程度上不处于良善。
34. One consequence of this is that to the extent that we turn our backs on evils because they are sins, we love what is true. That is, we are to that extent focused on what is good, as explained under the previous heading [18-31]. Conversely, to the extent that we do not turn our backs on evils because they are sins, we do not love what is true, because to that same extent we are not focused on what is good.
34. It is in consequence of this that insofar as someone refrains from evils as being sins, so far he loves truths, for so far he is prompted by goodness, as we showed in the previous chapter. And conversely, that insofar as someone does not refrain from evils as being sins, so far he does not love truths, because so far he is not prompted by goodness.
34. It follows from these considerations that so far as any one shuns evils as sins, so far he loves truths; for so far he is principled in good, as was shown in the article immediately preceding. On the other hand, also, it follows that so far as any one does not shun evils as sins, so far he does not love truths, because so far he is not principled in good.
34. It follows from these premises that in proportion as anyone shuns evils as sins, in the same proportion he loves truths (for in the same proportion he is in good, as has been shown in the preceding chapter); and also that in proportion as anyone does not shun evils as sins, in the same proportion he does not love truths, because in the same proportion he is not in good.
34. Horum consequens est, quod quantum quis fugit mala ut peccata, tantum amet vera; tantum enim in bono est, ut in mox praecedente articulo ostensum est. Tum vicissim, quod quantum quis non fugit mala ut peccata, tantum non amet vera, quia tantum non in bono est.