To love is to will the good of the other.
THOMAS AQUINASBeware the man of a single book.
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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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The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.
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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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The things that we love tell us what we are.
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Wonder is the desire of knowledge.
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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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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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Beware the man of a single book.
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True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of god.
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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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The soul is uninhabited world that only comes to life when god lays his head against us.
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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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Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely.
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There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship
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Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.
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