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. – Thomas Aquinas
Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient. – Thomas Aquinas
By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments. – 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 likeness in the masculine sex while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power. – Thomas Aquinas
How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars – when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know. – Thomas Aquinas
Love takes up where knowledge leaves off. – Thomas Aquinas
Wonder is the desire for knowledge. – Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine. – 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. – Thomas Aquinas
How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God. – Thomas Aquinas
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. – Thomas Aquinas
Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice. – Thomas Aquinas
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. – Thomas Aquinas
Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church. – Thomas Aquinas
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. – Thomas Aquinas
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. – Thomas Aquinas
Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand. – Thomas Aquinas
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 convicted of heresy. – Thomas Aquinas
The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them. – Thomas Aquinas
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. – Thomas Aquinas
