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Danh ngôn của Thomas Aquinas (Sứ mệnh: 5)

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
The things that we love tell us what we are.
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.
It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.
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.
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
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.
Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
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.
Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.
We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.
If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.
Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.
The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
Wonder is the desire for knowledge.
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.
The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.