life “to rest from external action.” Therefore the moral virtues do not pertain to the contemplative life. I answer that, A thing may belong to the contemplative life in two ways, essentially or as a predisposition. The moral virtues do not belong to the contemplative life essentially, because the end of the contemplative life is the consideration of truth. And as the Philosopher states,1 “knowledge,” which pertains to the consideration of truth, “has little influence on the moral virtues”; hence