Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
THOMAS AQUINASThere is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship
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We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.
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How is it they live in such harmony, the billions of stars, when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds?
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The things that we love tell us what we are.
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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
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I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. I would hope to act with compassion without thinking of personal gain.
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Our aspect of neighborly love is that we must not merely will our neighbors good, but actually work to bring it about.
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The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
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Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
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Beware the man of a single book.
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A mans heart is right when he wills that god wills.
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Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.
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God has no need for our worship. It is we who need to show gratitude for what we have received.
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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 soul is uninhabited world that only comes to life when god lays his head against us.
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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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