"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible."
-Thomas Aquinas
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"As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.“
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"The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false."
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"If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy."
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"Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious."
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