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

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" 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. "

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

" We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Wonder is the desire for knowledge. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "