If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

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.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

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.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

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

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.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Reason in man is rather like God in the world.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

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.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

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.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
Saint Thomas Aquinas