Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Wonder is the desire for knowledge.
God is never angry for His sake, only for ours.
Give us, O Lord, a steadfast heart, which no unworthy affection may drag downwards; give us an unconquered heart, which no tribulation can wear out; give us an upright heart, which no unworthy purpose...
Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.
God loves his creatures, and he loves each one the more, the more it shares his own goodness, which is the first and primary object of his love. Therefore he wants the desires of his rational creature...
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.
Human nature inclines us to have recourse to petition for the purpose of obtaining from another, especially from a person of higher rank, what we hope to receive from him. So prayer is recommended to...
To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.
If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.
Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
Reason in man is rather like God in the world.
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.
How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
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.
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...
Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
The soul is like an uninhabited worldthat comes to life only whenGod lays His headagainst us.
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.