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?
THOMAS AQUINASWonder is the desire of knowledge.
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There must be must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call God.
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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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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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Beware the man of a single book.
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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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The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.
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It is only god who creates. Man merely arranges.
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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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True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of god.
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Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
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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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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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If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
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The things that we love tell us what we are.
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To love is to will the good of the other.
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