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Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.
Thomas Aquinas
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Thomas Aquinas
Age: 49 †
Born: 1225
Born: February 1
Died: 1274
Died: March 14
Dominican Friar
Philosopher
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Roman Catholic Priest
Theologian
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Saint Thomas
Tommaso d'Aquino
Thomas of Aquino
St Thomas Aquinas
St. Thomas Aquinas
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Without doubt one is allowed to resist against the unjust aggressor to one's life, one's goods or one's physical integrity sometimes, even 'til the aggressor's death... In fact, this act is aimed at preserving one's life or one's goods and to make the aggressor powerless. Thus, it is a good act, which is the right of the victim.
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There is within every soul a thirst for happiness and meaning.
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If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature, he will not be free from blame.
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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.
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If someone knows from experience that daily Communion increases fervor without lessening reverence, then let him go every day. But if someone finds that reverence is lessened and devotion not much increased, then let him sometimes abstain, so as to draw near afterwards with better dispositions.
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Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely.
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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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There being an imminent danger for the faith, prelates must be questioned, even publicly, by their subjects.
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Beware the man of a single book.
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The things we love tell us who we are.
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There can be no joy in living without joy in work.
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All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.
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It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.
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Give, expecting nothing there of.
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Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
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Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
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Mistakes are made on two counts: an argument is either based on error or incorrectly developed.
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The fact that the evil ones, as long as they live, can be corrected from their errors does not prohibit that they may be justly executed, for the danger which threatens from their way of life is greater and more certain than the good which may be expected from their improvement.
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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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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.
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