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It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God.


Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.


Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.


Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.


A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.


To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.


All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.


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


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.


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.


Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.


Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.


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.


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.


Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.


Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works.


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.


Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.


Wonder is the desire for knowledge.


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