To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.
Thomas AquinasRead
To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Living well involves engaging in meaningful work and activities.
This quote emphasizes that a fulfilled life is grounded in productive and meaningful work. According to Thomas Aquinas, the quality of one's life is reflected in the effort and dedication put into one's activities, implying that true happiness and satisfaction come from commitment and purposeful action.
Themes
WorkLifeActivityMeaningfulHappiness
In practice
Example use cases
During a motivational seminar about career fulfillment.
More from Thomas Aquinas
All quotes βLaw is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.
Thomas AquinasRead
Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.
Thomas AquinasRead
A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.
Thomas AquinasRead
We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us; God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.
Thomas AquinasRead
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
Thomas AquinasRead
Similar quotes
The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb and half alive.
Jeanette WintersonRead
Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
Theodor AdornoRead
Our world requires that decisions be sourced and footnoted, and if we say how we feel, we must also be prepared to elaborate on why we feel that way...We need to respect the fact that it is possible to know without knowing why we know and accept that - sometimes - we're better off that way.
Malcolm GladwellRead
We're only human, we're supposed to make mistakes.
Billy JoelRead
I used to think I had no will to power. Now I perceive that I vented it on thoughts, rather than people. Conquering an unknown province of knowledge. Getting the better of a problem. Forcing ideas to associate or come apart. Bullying recalcitrant words to assume a certain pattern. All the fun of being a dictator without any risks and responsibilities.
Aldous HuxleyRead
How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.
Joseph CampbellRead