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Moral Quotes by Thomas Aquinas
- Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
- Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
- The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.
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