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" All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly. "

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" Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times. "

" To live well is to work well, to show a good activity. "

" 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. "

" Well-ordered self-love is right and natural. "

" 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. "

" Wonder is the desire for knowledge. "

" A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational. "

" Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church. "

" The things that we love tell us what we are. "

" Reason in man is rather like God in the world. "

" 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. "

" Love takes up where knowledge leaves off. "

" 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. "

" Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches. "

" Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community. "

" It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes. "

" The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false. "

" God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter. "

" Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. "

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" Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand. "

" The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces. "

" Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him. "

" 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. "

" Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason. "

" Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them. "

" Beware of the person of one book. "

" Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good. "

" Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love. "