Christian humanism

"Of happiness [Aristotle] has indeed said a good deal in the beginning and at the end of his Ethics. I will dare to say—and my censors may shout as loud as ever they please—he knew so absolutely nothing of true happiness that any pious old woman, any faithful fisherman, shepherd or peasant is—I will not say more subtle but happier in recognizing it." —Petrarca, the first great Italian humanist of the Renaissance