Thomas was born about the year 1225 into the family of the Count of Aquina. He first studied at the monastery of Monte Cassino and later at the University of Naples. Afterwards he joined the Friars Prachers and completed his studies at Paris and Cologne, his instructor being Saint Albert the Great. Becoming himself a teacher, he wrote many leaned volumes and was especially renowned for the philosophical and theological studies. Saint Thomas died near Terracina on March 7, 1274, but his memory is honored on January 28, the day his body was transferred to Toulouse in 1369.
Quotes from St. Thomas Aqinas
"The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth."
"For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice."
The things that we love tell us what we are."
"Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures."
"If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust."
"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."