11 Truths from Aquinas to set you straight
Get your priorities in check.
'God is not only true, but truth itself.' - ScG, 2.61
'A healthy mind pays more attention to what is good than to what is bad.' - Aquinas, ST 2-2.106.3
‘The devil is said to rejoice most over the sin of lust because it involves the greatest attachment and it is only with difficulty that a man can be torn away from it.' - Aquinas, ST 1-2.73.5ad2
‘Disordered love of self is a cause of every sin.’ - Aquinas, ST 1-2.77.4
'The love of bodily pleasures leads man to have a distaste for spiritual things, and not to hope for them as arduous goods. In this way, lust causes despair.' - Aquinas, ST 2-2.20.4
'The love of God is better than the knowledge of God.' - Aquinas, ST 1.82.3
'Truth does not depend on what one thinks but on the existence of things.' - Aquinas, 'On Truth' 1.2ad3
'The greatest of all pleasures consists in the contemplation of truth.' - Aquinas, ST 1-2.38.4
'It is impossible to maintain friendship with an evil person without becoming somewhat like him in evil.' - Aquinas, Commentary on Nichomachean Ethics 9
'Adultery is more grave than theft, since a man’s wife is more dear to him than his possessions.' - Aquinas, ST 1-2.73.5ad1
'The thing in which man excels is given to him by God, that he may profit others thereby.' - Aquinas, ST 2-2.131.1
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