Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason. |
Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious |
Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace. |
Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace. |
Reason in man is rather like God in the world |
Since the Jews are the slaves of the Church, she can dispose of their possessions |
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine |
Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passions |
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 |
The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing. |
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. |
The things that we love tell us what we are. |
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. |
Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet |