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Quotes by Saint Thomas Aquinas

  • Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in circumstances confronting him.
  • Beware the man of one book.
  • We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us and God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.
  • 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.
  • Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.