A mans heart is right when he wills that god wills.
THOMAS AQUINASFriendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
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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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Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
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To love is to will the good of the other.
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True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of god.
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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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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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Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
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It is only god who creates. Man merely arranges.
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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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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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Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.
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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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There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship
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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 Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.
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