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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
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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.
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By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
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The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.
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Even as in the blessed in heaven there will be most perfect charity, so in the damned there will be the most perfect hate. Wherefore as the saints will rejoice in all goods, so will the damned grieve for all goods. Consequently the sight of the happiness of the saints will give them very great pain; hence it is written (Isaiah 26:11): "Let the envious people see and be confounded, and let fire devour Thy enemies." Therefore they will wish all the good were damned.
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If... the motion of the earth were circular, it would be violent and contrary to nature, and could not be eternal, since … nothing violent is eternal.... It follows, therefore, that the earth is not moved with a circular motion.
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God's precepts are light to the loving, heavy to the fearful.
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Law: an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.
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To scorn the dictate of reason is to scorn the commandment of God.
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Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship.
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Since faith rests upon infallible truth, and since the contrary of a truth can never be demonstrated, it is clear that the arguments brought against faith cannot be demonstrations, but are difficulties that can be answered.
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Just as a man cannot live in the flesh unless he is born in the flesh, even so a man cannot have the spiritual life of grace unless he is born again spiritually. This regeneration is effected by Baptism: "Unless a man is born again of water and the Holy Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God" (Jn 3:5)
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Love works in a circle, for the beloved moves the lover by stamping a likeness, and the lover then goes out to hold the beloved inreality. Who first was the beginning now becomes the end of motion.
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Practical sciences proceed by building up; theoretical sciences by resolving into components.
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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet.
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Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
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Mistakes are made on two counts: an argument is either based on error or incorrectly developed.
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Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself.
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A thing is lovable according as it is good. But God is infinite good. Therefore He is infinitely lovable.
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The third principle [way doing good to another may give pleasure] is the motive: for instance when a man is moved by one whom he loves, to do good to someone: for whatever we do or suffer for a friend is pleasant, because love is the principal cause of pleasure.
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An act of love always tends towards two things; to the good that one wills, and to the person for whom one wills it.
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Baptism is the door of the spiritual life and the gateway to the sacraments.
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Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
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It is not possible to be ignorant of the end of things if we know their beginning.
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Born:
January 28, 1225
Died:
March 7, 1274
(aged 49)
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Tommaso d'Aquino, also known as Saint Thomas Aquinas, is a Doctor of the Church.
Known for:
Summa Theologica
Summa contra Gentiles (1264)
On Being and Essence
Treatise on Law
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