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Saint Thomas Aquinas

• Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
• A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.
• All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.
• All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.
• As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.
• Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.
• 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.
• Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
• By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
• Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
• Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
• The things that we love tell us what we are.