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Aquinas Thomas QUOTES

  • The things that we love tell us what we are.

  • To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

  • Beware the man of a single book.

  • There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.



  • 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.

  • Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.

  • Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine

  • If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

  • Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

  • 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.

  • Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.

  • 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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