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Aquinas warns that too much fear can drive a man into despair, making life feel dark. He says a life devoted to contemplation helps society become more perfect, and that those with much should share with the poor. He also notes that true perfection comes from detaching the mind from care and trusting in grace rather than nature.

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A man does not always choose what his guardian angel intends.

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All my words are but chaff next to the faith of a simple man.

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By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

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Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

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It is only God who creates. Man merely rearranges.

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No man truly has joy unless he lives in love.

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When fear is excessive it can make many a man despair.

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The proper effect of the Eucharist is the transformation of man into God.

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By the divine providence [animals] are intended for man's use... Hence it is not wrong for man to make use of them,…

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The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in His divinity, assumed our nature, so that He, made man, might…

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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…

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The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.

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Man is closer to God according to his existence in grace than he is according to his existence in nature.

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For in order that man may do well, whether in the works of the active life, or in those of the contemplative…

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The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God.

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Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain.

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To restore man, who had been laid low by sin, to the heights of divine glory, the Word of the eternal Father,…

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Secondly, man sins against nature when he goes against his generic nature, that is to say, his animal nature. Now, it is…

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Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance. So Ambrosius says, and it…

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Anger and the like are attributed to God on account of a similitude of effect. Thus, because to punish is properly the…

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Future contingents cannot be certain to us, because we know them as such. They can be certain only to God whose understanding…

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Baptism is the Sacrament of Faith. Now, dead faith does not suffice for salvation .. .Therefore, the Sacrament of Baptism cannot give…

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If all the sins of the flesh are worthy of condemnation because by them man allows himself to be dominated by that…

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Just as a man cannot live in the flesh unless he is born in the flesh, even so a man cannot have…

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The Sacrament of the Body of the Lord puts the demons to flight, defends us against the incentives to vice and to…

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Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not…

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It is altogether unlawful to kill oneself... Wherefore suicide is contrary to the inclination of nature, and to charity whereby every man…

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Evil denotes the lack of good. Not every absence of good is an evil, for absence may be taken either in a…

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Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189 Some there are who presume so far on their wits that…

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He (Mohammed) seduced the people by promises of carnal pleasure to which the concupiscence of the flesh urges us. His teaching also…

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If there were some solitary or feral man, the passions of the soul would be sufficient for him; by them he would…

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The Angel's bread is made the Bread of man today.

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A man's heart is right when he wills what God wills.

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Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man…

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Sloth is sluggishness of the mind which neglects to begin good...it is evil in its effect, if it so oppresses man as…

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Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is most perfect, more sublime, more profitable, and more full of…

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Devotion is a certain act of the will by which man gives himself promptly to divine service.

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All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that…

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It is a sin directly against one's neighbour, since one man cannot over-abound in external riches, without another man lacking them.

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It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.

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Grace does not destroy nature, it perfects it.

Justice is in subjects as well as in rulers.

“A capacity as such is directed to an act. Wherefore we seek to know the nature of a capacity from the act to which…

“Yet no-one can say that God has not a Word, for it would follow that God is most foolish.”

Unbelief is the greatest of sins.

If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death…

When fear is excessive it can make many a man despair.

Now, nothing can be brought from potentiality to actual existence except through something actually existing

To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.

By the divine providence [animals] are intended for man's use... Hence it is not wrong for man to make use of them, either by…

“What causes love, since it is a passion, is its object; and since it is a sort of affinity or agreement with the object,…

The image of God always abides in the soul, whether this image be obsolete and clouded over as to amount to almost nothing; or…

Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship.

Beauty adds to goodness a relation to the cognitive faculty: so that "good" means that which simply pleases the appetite; while the "beautiful" is…

“God is not, like creatures, made up of parts. God is spirit, without bodily dimensions. Firstly, no body can cause change without itself being…