"A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational."
― Thomas Aquinas
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"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."
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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."
― Thomas Aquinas
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"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."
― Thomas Aquinas
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"Beware of the person of one book."
― Thomas Aquinas
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"Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion."
― Thomas Aquinas
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"Wonder is the desire for knowledge."
― Thomas Aquinas
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"Love takes up where knowledge leaves off."
― Thomas Aquinas
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"Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine."
― Thomas Aquinas
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"Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason."
― Thomas Aquinas
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"Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand."
― Thomas Aquinas
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"Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate."
― Thomas Aquinas
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"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."
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"Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality."
― Thomas Aquinas
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"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship."
― Thomas Aquinas
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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."
― Thomas Aquinas
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"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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"It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes."
― 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."
― Thomas Aquinas
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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."
― Thomas Aquinas
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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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