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Thomas Aquinas


Italian
1225
Theologian
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The things that we love tell us what we are.


Thomas Aquinas
Tags: Love Things Us
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Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.


Thomas Aquinas
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Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.


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


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The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.
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Tags: God Against Moral
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
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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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Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.
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Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.
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Tags: Work Things Man
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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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.
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Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.
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