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Own Quotes by Thomas Aquinas
- Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in…
- 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…
- Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
- It is altogether unlawful to kill oneself... Wherefore suicide is contrary to the inclination of nature, and to charity whereby every man should love himself...…
- Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We know not its…
- Given the sin of impiety through which they [the Romans] sinned against the divine nature [by idolatry], the punishment that led them to sin against…
- If all the sins of the flesh are worthy of condemnation because by them man allows himself to be dominated by that which he has…
- It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for…
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