Thomas Aquinas quotes - page 5

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. (Thomas Aquinas)
To live well is to work well, to show a good activity. View quote
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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural. View quote
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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will. View quote
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It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes. View quote
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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. View quote
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All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly. View quote
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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. View quote
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By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments. View quote
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Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason. View quote
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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. (Thomas Aquinas)
How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God. View quote
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The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them. View quote
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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion. View quote
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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. View quote
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Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them. View quote
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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. (Thomas Aquinas)
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. View quote
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Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him. View quote
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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. View quote
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The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness. View quote
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