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" Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate. "

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" 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. "

" Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures. "

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

" Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need. "

" The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness. "

" The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art. "

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

" Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious. "

" If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way. "

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

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

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

" The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine. "

" Love takes up where knowledge leaves off. "

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

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

" Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will. "

" To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin. "

" There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved. "

" Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work. "

" The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them. "

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

" How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God. "

" 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. "

" 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. "