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A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.
Thomas Aquinas
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Thomas Aquinas
Age: 49 †
Born: 1225
Born: February 1
Died: 1274
Died: March 14
Dominican Friar
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Saint Thomas Aquinas
Saint Thomas
Tommaso d'Aquino
Thomas of Aquino
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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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When the devil is called the god of this world, it is not because he made it, but because we serve him with our worldliness.
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By the divine providence [animals] are intended for man's use... Hence it is not wrong for man to make use of them, either by killing or in any other way whatsoever.
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It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention.
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We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.
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No man truly has joy unless he lives in love.
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Love follows knowledge.
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The soul, which is the first principle of life, is not a body, but the act of a body just as heat, which is the principle of calefaction, is not a body, but an act of a body.
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What does it take to become a saint? Will it.
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There can be no joy in living without joy in work.
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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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Now, nothing can be brought from potentiality to actual existence except through something actually existing
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One cannot use an evil action with reference to a good intention.
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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.
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