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Power Quotes by Thomas Aquinas
- As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect…
- If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one…
- 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…
- Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not know its cause,…
- He who achieves power by violence does not truly become lord or master.
- An angel can illumine the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision and by bringing within his reach some truth which…
- This Blood that but one drop of has the power to win all the world forgiveness of its world of sin.
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