Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
THOMAS AQUINASThe soul is uninhabited world that only comes to life when god lays his head against us.
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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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To love is to will the good of the other.
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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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There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship
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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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Beware the man of a single book.
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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 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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Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.
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Wonder is the desire of knowledge.
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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 things that we love tell us what we are.
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There must be must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call God.
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