"One aspect of neighbourly love is that..." - Quote by Thomas Aquinas
One aspect of neighbourly love is that we must not merely will our neighbours good, but actually work to bring it about.
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“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.”
“The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.”
“Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.”
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“Love is like a flower - you have to let it grow.”
“When that which loves is united to the thing beloved it can rest there; when the burden is laid down it finds rest there. There will be eternal fame also for the inhabitants of that town, constructed and enlarged by him.”
“Love revels in and grows in the moment and the joy of the moment.”
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“We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy”
“The shortest answer is doing the thing.”
“It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing.”