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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Love takes up where knowledge leaves off. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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