If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
THOMAS AQUINASMost men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
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Beware the man of a single book.
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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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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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The things that we love tell us what we are.
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Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.
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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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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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Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
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Wonder is the desire of knowledge.
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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 must be must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call God.
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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 set forth our petitions before god, not in order to make known to him our needs and desires, but rather so that we ourselves may realize that in the things it is necessary to turn to god for help.
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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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