It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
So, to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
[It is appropriate that the Body and Blood of Christ be truly present in this Sacrament] because of the perfection of the… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The perfection of the effect demonstrates the perfection of the cause, for a greater power brings about a more perfect effect. But… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“A capacity as such is directed to an act. Wherefore we seek to know the nature of a capacity from the act to which… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“Yet no-one can say that God has not a Word, for it would follow that God is most foolish.” — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Now, nothing can be brought from potentiality to actual existence except through something actually existing — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
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… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“What causes love, since it is a passion, is its object; and since it is a sort of affinity or agreement with the object,… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The image of God always abides in the soul, whether this image be obsolete and clouded over as to amount to almost nothing; or… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
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