Thomas Aquinas

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“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”

― Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)

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“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.”

― Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)

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“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.”

― Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)

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“The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is. ”

― Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)

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

― Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)

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“Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.”

― Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)

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“Wonder is the desire of knowledge.”

― Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)

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“For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice.”

― Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)

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“knowledge depends on the mode of the knower; for what is known is in the knower according to the measure of his mode”

― Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)

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

― Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)