Thomas Aquinas
The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.Collection: Courage
Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.Collection: Men
To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.Collection: Work
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.Collection: Good
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.Collection: Sympathy
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.Collection: Faith
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.Collection: Knowledge
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.Collection: Leadership
Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.Collection: God
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.Collection: Patience
Wonder is the desire for knowledge.Collection: Knowledge
By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.Collection: Nature
It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.Collection: Time
Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.Collection: Science
Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.Collection: Knowledge
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.Collection: Faith
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.Collection: Power
Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.Collection: Nature
The things that we love tell us what we are.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Power
Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.Collection: Faith
Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.Collection: Faith
Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.Collection: Work
There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved.Collection: Men
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.Collection: Friendship
How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.Collection: God
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.Collection: Friendship
If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.Collection: Religion
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.Collection: War
Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.Collection: Good
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.Collection: Knowledge
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.Collection: War
The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.Collection: Kindness
Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.Collection: Perseverance
He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.Collection: Justice
For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice.Collection: Evidence
Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely.Collection: Heart
We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.Collection: Opinion
To love is to will the good of the other.Collection: Love
To pretend angels do not exist because they are invisible is to believe we never sleep because we don't see ourselves sleeping.Collection: Inspirational
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.Collection: Believe
There can be no joy in living without joy in work.Collection: Happiness
Better to illuminate than merely to shine.Collection: Shining
Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.Collection: Powerful
Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.Collection: Spiritual
He who achieves power by violence does not truly become lord or master.Collection: Doe
It is only God who creates. Man merely rearranges.Collection: Men
There is within every soul a thirst for happiness and meaning.Collection: Soul
Obedience unites us so closely to God that it in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other will but His. If obedience is lacking, even prayer cannot be pleasing to God.Collection: Prayer