To love according to the rules of virtue is to love God alone and to love Him in all things; it is to love things to the extent to which they participate in the goodness and the perfections of God, since this is to love them to the extent to which they are worthy of love; finally, it is to love with the impression of the same love by which God loves Himself, for it is God's self love and everything related to it that animates us when we love as we should love.