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1220–1274 Italy
Saint Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225 – 7 March 1274) was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church. An immensely influential philosopher, theologian, and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism, he is also known within the latter as the Doctor Angelicus, the Doctor Communis, and the Doctor Universalis.
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Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship.
Virtue’s true reward is happiness itself, for which the virtuous work, whereas if they worked for honor, it would no longer be virtue, but ambition.
Reason in man is rather like God in the world.
The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God.
Summa contra Gentiles (1259)
It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin.
Truth is the ultimate end of the whole universe.
Summa contra Gentiles (1259)
Nothing which implies contradiction falls under the omnipotence of God.
To love is to will the good of the other.
Whatever we do or suffer for a friend is pleasant, because love is the principal cause of pleasure.
One who liberates his country by killing a tyrant is to be praised and rewarded.
Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard (1254)
Adoration whereby we adore God is an act of religion.
Grace does not destroy nature but perfects it.
No evil can be excused because it is done with a good intention.
On the Ten Commandments (1273)
Now what has been said about the Jews is also to be understood about Cahorsins, and anyone else depending upon the depravity of usury.
On the Governance of the Jews (1263)
As the saints will rejoice in all goods, so will the damned grieve for all goods.
The greatness of the human being consists in this: that it is capable of the universe.
De veritate (1256)
The reason, however, why the philosopher may be likened to the poet is this: both are concerned with the marvellous.
A hymn is the praise of God with song; a song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.
Commentary on the Psalms (1273)
Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
De veritate (1256)
There is no order between created being and non-being, but there is between created and uncreated being.
De potentia (1265)
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