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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

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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.

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Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.

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Beware of the person of one book.

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If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

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All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.

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Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.

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All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.

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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.

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

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Reason in man is rather like God in the world.

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To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.

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The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.

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There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

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Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.

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God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter.

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There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved.

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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.

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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.

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Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.

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Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.

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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.

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

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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.

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