"All men are equal in nature, and..." - Quote by Thomas Aquinas

“Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance.”

“It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.”

“Reasoning is compared to understanding as movement is to rest, or acquisition to possession.... Since movement always proceeds from something immovable, and ends in something at rest, hence it is that human reasoning, in the order of inquiry and discovery, proceeds from certain things absolutely understood--namely, the first principles; and, again, in the order of judgment, returns by analysis to first principles, in the light of which it examines what it has found. Now it is clear that rest and movement are not to be referred to different powers, but to one and the same.”

“We should respect all people.”

“We cannot have real independence unless the people banish the touch-me-not spirit from their hearts.”

“The aim of justice is to give everyone his due.”

“I want the flower and fruit of a man; that some fragrance be wafted over from him to me, and some ripeness flavor our intercourse.”

“Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration, that, if man is stupid, then who is wise?) But if he is not stupid, he is monstrously ungrateful! Phenomenally ungrateful. In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.”

“He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming.”