Saint Thomas Aquinas

(339 votes)   Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

St. Thomas Aquinas
1225-1274, Italian Scholastic Philosopher and Theologian

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(331 votes)   We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us; and God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.

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(283 votes)   Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

St. Thomas Aquinas
1225-1274, Italian Scholastic Philosopher and Theologian

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(241 votes)   Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

St. Thomas Aquinas
1225-1274, Italian Scholastic Philosopher and Theologian

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(221 votes)   A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

St. Thomas Aquinas
1225-1274, Italian Scholastic Philosopher and Theologian

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(218 votes)   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.

St. Thomas Aquinas
1225-1274, Italian Scholastic Philosopher and Theologian

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(217 votes)   By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

St. Thomas Aquinas
1225-1274, Italian Scholastic Philosopher and Theologian

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(210 votes)   Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good....

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(208 votes)   Beware of the person of one book.

St. Thomas Aquinas
1225-1274, Italian Scholastic Philosopher and Theologian

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(208 votes)   Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

St. Thomas Aquinas
1225-1274, Italian Scholastic Philosopher and Theologian

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(205 votes)   And therefore the Philosopher [Aristotle] says in Metaphysics VI that good and evil, which are objects of the will, are in things, but truth and error, which are objects of the intellect, are in the mind.

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(199 votes)   The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.

St. Thomas Aquinas
1225-1274, Italian Scholastic Philosopher and Theologian

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(192 votes)   Beware of the man of one book.

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(185 votes)   Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

St. Thomas Aquinas
1225-1274, Italian Scholastic Philosopher and Theologian

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(179 votes)   Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

St. Thomas Aquinas
1225-1274, Italian Scholastic Philosopher and Theologian

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