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Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
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Beware of the person of one book.
Written by Thomas Aquinas
Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
Written by Thomas Aquinas
By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
Written by Thomas Aquinas
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Written by Thomas Aquinas
Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.
Written by Thomas Aquinas
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.
Written by Thomas Aquinas
A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.
Written by Thomas Aquinas
To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.
Written by Thomas Aquinas
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.
Written by Thomas Aquinas
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
Written by Thomas Aquinas
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Written by Thomas Aquinas
Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
Written by Thomas Aquinas
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
Written by Thomas Aquinas
The things that we love tell us what we are.
Written by Thomas Aquinas
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
Written by Thomas Aquinas
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.
Written by Thomas Aquinas
Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
Written by Thomas Aquinas
It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.
Written by Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Written by Thomas Aquinas
Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.
Written by Thomas Aquinas
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.
Written by Thomas Aquinas
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.
Written by Thomas Aquinas
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.
Written by Thomas Aquinas
Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.
Written by Thomas Aquinas
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.
Written by Thomas Aquinas
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
Written by Thomas Aquinas
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
Written by Thomas Aquinas
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.
Written by Thomas Aquinas
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.
Written by Thomas Aquinas

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