If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.

—Thomas Aquinas

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Thomas Aquinas ( ə-KWY-nəs; Italian: Tommaso d'Aquino, lit. 'Thomas of Aquino'; c. 1225 – 7 March 1274) was an Italian Dominican friar and priest, theologian, and philosopher. He is considered one of the most influential thinkers in the history of Catholic theology and Western philosophy. He is the father of...

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If something is true, no matter who said it, it is always from the Holy Spirit.

—Thomas Aquinas in De Veritate

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

—Thomas Aquinas

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

—Thomas Aquinas

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Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

—Thomas Aquinas

The things that we love tell us what we are.

—Thomas Aquinas

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I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter the conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner of the world.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

The higher the buildings, the lower the morals.

Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feeling of moral superiority while asking nothing in return.

Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is "What do you like?" Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are.

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