There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship
THOMAS AQUINASFear 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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Love follows knowledge.
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When the devil is called god of this world, it is not because he made it, but because we serve him with our worldiness.
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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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Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.
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The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.
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If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
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He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you could live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.
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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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Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely.
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There must be must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call God.
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The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.
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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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To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
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God himself would not permit evil in this world if good did not come of it for the benefit and harmony of the universe.
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