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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. "

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" 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. "

Thomas Aquinas

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

" Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion. "

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

Thomas Aquinas

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" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient. "

" 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. "

" Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason. "

" By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever. "

" 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. "

" Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality. "

" That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell. "

" 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. "

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

" Love takes up where knowledge leaves off. "

Thomas Aquinas

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" 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. "

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

Thomas Aquinas

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