Italian - Theologian | 1225 - 1274
If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.
Thomas Aquinas
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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.
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To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.
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How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
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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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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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Wonder is the desire for knowledge.
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Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.
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Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.
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Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
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There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved.
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A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.
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