Thomas Aquinas

“Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.”

“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.”

“To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.”

“Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.”

“Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.”

“We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.”

“In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.”

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

“It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.”

“Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.”

“Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.”

“How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.”

“Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.”

“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.”

“Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.”

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

“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.”