Thomas Aquinas Quotes

It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need.

Thomas Aquinas

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• You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

  

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• I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

  

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• It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Support
  • Reason
  • Need