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Quotes by Thomas Aquinas
- 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.
- The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.
- The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
- The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.
- The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
- There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
- To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.
- To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.
- To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
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