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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.
Thomas Aquinas
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Thomas Aquinas
Age: 49 †
Born: 1225
Born: February 1
Died: 1274
Died: March 14
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Natural inclinations are present in things from God, who moves all things. So it is impossible for the natural inclinations of a species to be toward evil in itself. But there is in all perfect animals a natural inclination toward carnal union. Therefore it is impossible for carnal union to be evil in itself.
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If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
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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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Anger and the like are attributed to God on account of a similitude of effect. Thus, because to punish is properly the act of an angry man, God's punishment is metaphorically spoken of as His anger.
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The custom of the Church has very great authority and ought to be jealously observed in all things.
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The celestial bodies are the cause of all that takes place in the sublunar world.
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Humility is the mark of a genuine disciple.
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The Blessed Eucharist is the perfect Sacrament of the Lord's Passion, since It contains Christ Himself and his Passion.
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Future contingents cannot be certain to us, because we know them as such. They can be certain only to God whose understanding is in eternity above time. Just as a man going along a road does not see those who come after him but the man who sees the whole road from a height sees all those who are going along the road at the same time.
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There is nothing in your mind which wasn't experienced before hand.
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Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
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The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God.
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He who does not embrace the teaching of the Church does not have the habit of faith.
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The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in His divinity, assumed our nature, so that He, made man, might make men gods.
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To pretend angels do not exist because they are invisible is to believe we never sleep because we don't see ourselves sleeping.
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Art is right reason in the doing of work.
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The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine.
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There being an imminent danger for the faith, prelates must be questioned, even publicly, by their subjects.
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To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to contemning the command of God.
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Christ was either liar, lunatic, or Lord!
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