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Letter "S" » St. Thomas Aquinas Quotes
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«To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.»
Author: St. Thomas Aquinas
«As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power»
Author: St. Thomas Aquinas
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Women
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defect, defective, defectives, likeness, masculine, misbegotten, production, regards, tends, tends to
«Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet»
Author: St. Thomas Aquinas
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adapted, contemplation, contemplative, so as to, The Practice, The Works
«Since the Jews are the slaves of the Church, she can dispose of their possessions»
«Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community»
Author: St. Thomas Aquinas
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Community,
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
common good, common law, ordinance
«Give, expecting nothing thereof St»
«And therefore the Philosopher [Aristotle] says in Metaphysics VI that good and evil, which are objects of the will, are in things, but truth and error, which are objects of the intellect, are in the mind.»
«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»
Author: St. Thomas Aquinas
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convict, convicted, convicts, excommunicate, excommunicated, excommunicating, heresy, malefactor, malefactors, putting to death, put to death, secular
«But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals»
«That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell»
Author: St. Thomas Aquinas
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Saints
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abundantly, Beatitude, God damn, grace of God, saints, The Damned, The Saints
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