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.
THOMAS AQUINASMost men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
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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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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 things that we love tell us what we are.
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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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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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Beware the man of a single book.
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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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To love is to will the good of the other.
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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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God himself would not permit evil in this world if good did not come of it for the benefit and harmony of the universe.
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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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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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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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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
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