Thomas Aquinas Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Men, Willpower, Virtue

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1951). “St. Thomas Aquinas: Philosophical Texts”

• Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Mother, Roots, Saint

• The soul is perfected by knowledge and virtue.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Soul, Virtue

  Saint Thomas Aquinas, Aeterna Press (2015). “Of God and His Creatures”, p.188, Aeterna Press
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  Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Passion, Perfection

  St Thomas Aquinas (2013). “Summa Theologica, Volume 1”, p.484, Cosimo, Inc.

• It would seem that the ingratitude, whereby a subsequent sin causes the return of sins previously forgiven, is a special sin. For, the giving of thanks belongs to counter passion, which is a necessary condition of justice. But justice is a special virtue. Therefore this ingratitude is a special sin. Thanksgiving is a special virtue. But ingratitude is opposed to thanksgiving. Therefore ingratitude is a special sin.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Thanksgiving, Passion, Justice

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