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
The celestial bodies are the cause of all that takes place in the sublunar world. – 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
The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them. – Thomas Aquinas