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.
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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 a woman comes from defect in the active power.Thomas Aquinas
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
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If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.
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Reason in man is rather like God in the world.
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All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.
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