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Theologe, Philosoph, "Summa theologiae", "Summa contra gentiles" (Italien, 1225 - 1274).

Hl. Thomas von Aquin · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Hl. Thomas von Aquin wäre heute 799 Jahre, 3 Monate, 18 Tage oder 291.937 Tage alt.

Geboren am 01.01.1225 in Burg Roccasecca bei Aquino
Gestorben am 07.03.1274 in Kloster Fossanova
Sternzeichen: ♑ Steinbock

• Zurückkehren zu seiner Wesenheit ist nichts anderes als: ein in sich selbst ruhendes, selbständiges Sein haben.

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• Zweierlei hilft, die Freundschaft zu bewahren: Das erste ist die Geduld, denn ein jähzorniger Mann erregt Streit. Das zweite ist die Demut, die die Geduld hervorbringt, denn unter Hochmütigen gibt es ständig Zänkereien.
  • Geduld
  • Freundschaft
  • Mann/Männer

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• Art is simply a right method of doing things. The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.

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• Charity brings to life again those who are spiritually dead.

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• For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

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• Government by a tyrant is the worst form of rule.

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• If all evil were prevented, much good would be absent from the universe. A lion would cease to live, if there were no slaying of animals; and there would be no patience of martyrs if there were no tyrannical persecution.

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

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• Law: an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.

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• Love is the most excellent source of joy.

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• Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

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• Now, my tongue, the mystery telling Of the glorious Body sing, And the Blood, all price excelling, Which the Gentiles' Lord and King, In a Virgin's womb once dwelling, Shed for this world's ransoming.

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• Now, the end of our desires is God; hence, the act whereby we are primarily joined to Him is basically and substantially our happiness. But we are primarily united with God by an act of understanding; and therefore, the very seeing of God, which is an act of the intellect, is substantially and basically our happiness.

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• Therefore it is necessary to arrive at a prime mover, put in motion by no other; and this everyone understands to be God.

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• Therefore we, before him bending, This great Sacrament revere; Types and shadows have their ending, For the newer rite is here.

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• To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.

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• L'amour est la meilleure source de joie.

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• Cessante causa cessat effectus.

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• Cessante causa cessat effectus.

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