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‘Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.’ Thomas Aquinas Remarkable. Tragic. IHOPKC is...

‘Aquinas assigns intemperance to the “roving unrest of spirit”, which he says is the first-born daughter of acedia (or sloth)…Acedia is...

‘To begin with: for Thomas Aquinas it is plainly self-evident--indeed so self-evident that it need hardly be mentioned even to those but...

‘The primary and essential meaning of temperance…is this: to dispose various parts into one unified and ordered whole.’ (The Four...

‘To be patient means to preserve cheerfulness and serenity of mind in spite of injuries that result from the realization of the good....

‘To be brave actually means to be able to suffer injury. Because man is by nature vulnerable, he can be brave.’ (The Four Cardinal...

‘…any unchastity has these two aspects: to be at once intemperance and injustice.’ (The Four Cardinal Virtues, Josef Pieper, p. 158) ‘…in...

‘Justice is the virtue which enables man to give to each one his due.’ (The Four Cardinal Virtues, Josef Pieper, p. 44) ‘We cannot state...

‘This truth of real things…is contained in the true-to-being-memory. The true-to-being character of memory means simply that it...

‘To be open to the truth of real things and to live by the truth that one has grasped is the essence of the moral being. Only when we...

‘“The doctrine of virtue” was one of the great discoveries in the history of man’s self-understanding…It has become a basic component of...