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Thomas Aquinas on Character

1220–1274 Italy

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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.

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)

Anything done against faith or conscience is sinful.

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