Thomas Aquinas

It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.

Thomas Aquinas

Justice is in subjects as well as in rulers.

Thomas Aquinas

Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love.

Thomas Aquinas

Love works in a circle, for the beloved moves the lover by stamping a likeness, and the lover then goes out to hold the beloved inreality. Who first was the beginning now becomes the end of motion.

Thomas Aquinas

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

Thomas Aquinas

Man is closer to God according to his existence in grace than he is according to his existence in nature.

Thomas Aquinas

Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.

Thomas Aquinas

Miracles are signs not to them that believe, but to them that believe not.

Thomas Aquinas

Mistakes are made on two counts: an argument is either based on error or incorrectly developed.

Thomas Aquinas

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

Thomas Aquinas