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" All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit. "
Said
Origin
Been
" All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly. "
Fly
Mind
Human Mind
" A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational. "
Man
Extent
Rational
" As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power. "
Woman
Sex
Seed
" Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them. "
Some People
Some
Same
" Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder. "
Way
Philosophy
Wonder
" Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not. "
Cannot
Only
Know
" Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate. "
Than
Others
Shine
" Beware of the person of one book. "
Beware
Book
One Book
" By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments. "
Other
Liberty
Equal
" Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches. "
Will
Church
Guide
" Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality. "
Drawn
Mind
Reality
" Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins. "
Conscience
Always
Wise
" Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand. "
Seen
Faith
Hand
" Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. "
Without
Become
Friends
" God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter. "
Principal
God
Individual
" Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good. "
Evil
Exist
Cannot
" Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will. "
Own
Man
Virtue
" Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church. "
Our
Church
Faith
" How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God. "
Love
Know
Need
" How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know. "
Men
War
Harmony
" Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason. "
Reason
Truths
Salvation
" If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy. "
Death
Power
Much
" If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever. "
Forever
Leadership
Ship
" If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way. "
You
Go
Way
" In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention. "
War
Intention
First
" It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills. "
Him
God
Prayer
" It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God. "
People
Outside
Necessity
" It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us. "
God
Us
Work
" It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes. "
Playful
Deeds
Jokes
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