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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Thomas Aquinas

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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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

Thomas Aquinas

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

" To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. "

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