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- Know
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Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
- Friendship
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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
- Harmony
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How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
- Make
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It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.
- Love
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Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
- Book
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Beware of the person of one book.
- Nov 07, 2020
Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.
- Being
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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.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.
- Big
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Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.
- Happiness
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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
- Men
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Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
- Possible
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To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
- Love
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The things that we love tell us what we are.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Captain
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
- Perfection
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.
- Patience
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- Nov 07, 2020
To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reason in man is rather like God in the world.
- Hand
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- Nov 07, 2020
Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.
- Friendship
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- Nov 07, 2020
Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Grace
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Defective
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020