Pensamientos

"Veritas est adaequatio intellectus et rei. (Truth is the adaptation of the intellect to reality)."

"It is characteristic of the wise man to order all things."

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; It is because we do not dare that they are difficult."

"The natural law is nothing other than the light of intelligence placed in us by God; Through it we know what should be done and what should be avoided."

"There is no doctrine so absurd or thought so crazy that it has not been supported by some philosopher."

"Virtue is an acquired voluntary disposition, which consists of a middle ground between two bad extremes, one due to excess and the other due to defect."

"He who does not punish evil, orders it to be done."

"Peace is the tranquility of order."

"If you don't know the cause of a problem, it is impossible to cure it."

"The greatest deception that men suffer comes from their own opinions."

"For those who have faith, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not have it, no explanation is possible."

"Intelligence consists not only of knowledge, but also of the skill of applying knowledge in practice."

"The truth is like a lion. You don't have to defend her. Let her loose. She will defend herself."

"The study of philosophy does not aim to know what men have thought, but rather what the truth of things is."

"Grace does not destroy nature, but perfects it."

"It is evident that the purpose of any gathered multitude is to live according to virtue. For men congregate to live well together, which each one could not achieve by living alone."

"Human law is such insofar as it derives from right reason. And in this sense it is evident that it derives from the eternal law. But as soon as it deviates from reason, it is called iniquitous law, and thus it does not have the nature of law, but rather of violence."

"The intellect understands by assimilating itself to the thing understood; Therefore, truth is the adequacy between the intellect and the thing."

"Just as evil is the privation of good, so falsehood is the privation of truth."

"Three things are necessary for man's salvation: knowing what he should believe, knowing what he should desire, and knowing what he should do."

"Ignorance is the root and trunk of all evil."

"The goal of education is virtue and the desire to become a good citizen."

"The worst form of injustice is simulated justice."

"Love is the joy of the good, the amazement of the wise, the amazement of the gods."

"An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so those who have the least ingenuity are the most charlatans."

"Modern heresy consists of playing with fire without knowing that fire burns."

"The poet only asks to put his head in the heavens. The logician seeks to put the heavens in his head, and it is his head that explodes."

"Removing the fence without asking why it was put up is the first step to letting in the wild beasts."

"Every era is saved by a handful of men who have the courage to not be of their era."

"The modern world is full of Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and wander alone."

"The dictatorship of relativism does not recognize anything as definitive and leaves only the self and its whims as the last measure."

"Reason is not saved without faith, but faith without reason will not be human."

"Morality is not a prison of regulations, but the architecture of human freedom."

"Where God disappears from the public sphere, human dignity loses its absolute foundation."

"Do not fight among yourselves; because it is preferable that all things suffer, rather than fight. Start doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you will be doing the impossible."

"All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle."

"Man is not worth more than he is worth in the eyes of God."

"He who trusts in himself is lost. He who trusts in God can do everything."

"Love does not admit half measures. Those who truly love either give themselves completely or do not love at all."

"The greatest consolation for a soul in tribulation is to know that it is suffering from the ordered and provident will."

"Prayer is the most formidable weapon that God has placed in the hands of fragile man; He who prays is undoubtedly saved."

"Detachment from the goods of this world is not the end of virtue, but rather the indispensable beginning to possessing the supreme Good."

"There is no true knowledge of man if there is first no knowledge of his ultimate goal."