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.
THOMAS AQUINASFriendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
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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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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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There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship
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Love follows knowledge.
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Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
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True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of god.
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Beware the man of a single book.
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The study of truth requires a considerable effort – which is why few are willing to undertake it out of love of knowledge – despite the fact that God has implanted a natural appetite for such knowledge in the minds of men.
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There must be must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call 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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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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If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
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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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Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
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