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• Prostitution in the towns is like the cesspool in the palace; take away the cesspool and the palace will become an unclean and evil smelling-place.

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  Evil, Palaces, Towns

  "Homage to Qwert Yuiop: Selected Journalism 1978-1985 (What Shakespeare Smelt)". Book by Anthony Burgess, 1986.

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• Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy ... wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause of delight because it carries with it the hope of discovery.

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  Philosophy, Knowledge, Science

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• To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.

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  Powerful, Live Well, Shows

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• Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.

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  Knows

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• Baptism is the door of the spiritual life and the gateway to the sacraments.

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  Spiritual, Doors, Baptism

  "Summa Theologica". Book by Thomas Aquinas (Part III, Question 73, Article 3), 1485.

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• The soul, which is the first principle of life, is not a body, but the act of a body; just as heat, which is the principle of calefaction, is not a body, but an act of a body.

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  Soul, Body, Firsts

  Thomas Aquinas (1997). “Basic Writings of St. Thomas Aquinas: Volume One”, p.683, Hackett Publishing

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• A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Thoughtful, Love Is

  Saint Thomas Aquinas (1951). “Philosophical Texts”, London : Oxford University Press

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• First, I say that he draws near to those who make peace with him. For God is the One who brings about peace; and where else should peace dwell than in peace?

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  Firsts, Should, Draws

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (2010). “The Academic Sermons (The Fathers of the Church, Mediaeval Continuation, Volume 11)”, p.48, CUA Press

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• It may well happen that what is in itself the more certain on account of the weakness of our intelligence, which is dazzled by the clearest objects of nature; as the owl is dazzled by the light of the sun. Hence the fact that some happen to doubt about articles of faith is not due to the uncertain nature of the truths, but to the weakness of human intelligence; yet the slenderest knowledge that may be obtained of the highest things is more desirable than the most certain knowledge obtained of lesser things.

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  Christian, Light, Doubt

  Saint Thomas Aquinas, Catholic Way Publishing (2014). “The Summa Theologica: Complete Edition”, p.59, Catholic Way Publishing

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• It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin.

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  Charity, Way, Sin

  "Quaestiones disputatae: De caritate (Disputed Questions: On Charity)". Book by Thomas Aquinas, circa 1270.

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• Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.

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  Powerful, Believe, Scary

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1955). “Theological texts”

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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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  Men, Choices, Would Be

  Thomas Aquinas (1997). “Basic Writings of St. Thomas Aquinas: Volume One”, p.787, Hackett Publishing

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• Arrive at knowledge over small streamlets, and do not plunge immediately into the ocean, since progress must go from the easier to the more difficult.

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  Ocean, Progress, Easier

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• A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities.

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  Sublime, Triviality, Scrap

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1955). “Theological texts”

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• Down in adoration falling, Lo! the sacred Host we hail; Lo! o'er ancient forms departing, Newer rites of grace prevail; Faith for all defects supplying, Where the feeble senses fail.

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  Fall, Grace, Sacred

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• 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 the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need

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  Support, Needs, Use

  St Thomas Aquinas (2013). “Summa Theologica, Volume 3 (Part II, Second Section)”, p.1475, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Love works in a circle, for the beloved moves the lover by stamping a likeness, and the lover then goes out to hold the beloved inreality. Who first was the beginning now becomes the end of motion.

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  Love, Moving, Circles

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1960). “Philosophical Texts”

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• Whenever God wakes in us, our thinking becomes clear - nothing is missing.

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  Missing You, God, Thinking

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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 purely negative or in aprivative sense. Mere negation does not display the character of evil, otherwise nonexistents would be evil and moreover, a thing would be evil for not possessing the goodness of something else, which would mean that man is bad for not having the strength of a lion or the speed of a wild goat. But what is evil is privation; in this sense blindness means the privation of sight.

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  Taken, Character, Mean

  Saint Thomas Aquinas (1951). “Philosophical Texts”, London : Oxford University Press

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

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  Atheist, Existence

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• That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.

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  Powerful, Thoughtful, Love Is

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

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  Nature, Powerful, Thoughtful

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1960). “St. Thomas Aquinas: Philosophical Texts”

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• The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.

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  Powerful, Suffering, Saint

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1955). “Theological texts”

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• It would be superfluous to receive by faith, things that can be known by natural reason

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  Would Be, Reason, Natural

  Saint Thomas Aquinas, Catholic Way Publishing (2014). “The Summa Theologica: Complete Edition”, p.4959, Catholic Way Publishing

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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, either by killing or in any other way whatsoever.

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  Animal, Men, Use

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