Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
Thomas Aquinas
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More quotes by Thomas Aquinas
- 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.
- 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.