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
By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments. – Thomas Aquinas
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. – Thomas Aquinas
Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and content; but nature compels him to leave ease… and throw himself into roils and labors. – Immanuel Kant, Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose, 1787