 Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them. |
| Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient. |
| Well-ordered self-love is right and natural. |
| To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin. |
| Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason. |
| 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. |
| Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works. |
| To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them. |
| 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. |
| Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures. |
| Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. Topics: Friendship |
| Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church. |
| Beware of the person of one book. |
| Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches. |
| Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them. |
