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1 1, 1 | thereby men's ~minds are the better preserved from error. For
2 1, 1 | thereby divine truths are the ~better hidden from the unworthy.~
3 1, 2 | to us. When an effect is better known to us than its ~cause,
4 1, 2 | long as its effects are better known to us; because since
5 1, 3 | that which is composite is better than that which is simple;
6 1, 3 | chemical compounds are better than simple elements, and
7 1, 3 | us composite things are better than simple things, ~because
8 1, 3 | be quite accurate, ~it is better to say that they are, not
9 1, 5 | said of Judas: "It were better for him, if that man had
10 1, 11 | reduced into one order by one ~better than by many: because one
11 1, 12 | understand one and the same thing better than ~another, this would
12 1, 12 | to express divine things better ~than those do which we
13 1, 14 | causes ~themselves, much better than we can; but still not
14 1, 18 | of life. Or it would be better to say that sensation and
15 1, 18 | a living ~substance is better than a substance that does
16 1, 19 | which is inadmissible. It is better therefore to say ~that this
17 1, 20 | Whether He loves more the better things?~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[
18 1, 20 | no one thing would be better than another, if God did
19 1, 20 | God always loves more the better things?~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[
20 1, 20 | not always love more the better things. ~For it is manifest
21 1, 20 | manifest that Christ is better than the whole human race,
22 1, 20 | not always love more the better things.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[
23 1, 20 | 2: Further, an angel is better than a man. Hence it is
24 1, 20 | not always love more the better things.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[
25 1, 20 | OBJ 3: Further, Peter was better than John, since he loved
26 1, 20 | not always love more the ~better things.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[
27 1, 20 | Further, the innocent man is better than the repentant, since ~
28 1, 20 | not always love more the better things.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[
29 1, 20 | man who is foreknown is better than the ~predestined sinner.
30 1, 20 | not always ~love more the better things.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[
31 1, 20 | loveth its like." Now the better a thing ~is, the more like
32 1, 20 | it to God. Therefore the better things are more ~loved by
33 1, 20 | that God loves more the better things . For it has been
34 1, 20 | reason why some things are better than ~others, is that God
35 1, 20 | that ~He loves more the better things.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[
36 1, 20 | angels; for that nature ~is better, especially on the ground
37 1, 20 | natural condition an ~angel is better than a man. God therefore
38 1, 20 | speaking, Peter was the better and more beloved; but, in
39 1, 20 | certain sense, John was the better, and was loved the more.
40 1, 20 | penitent, those are the better and ~better loved who have
41 1, 20 | those are the better and ~better loved who have most grace.
42 1, 20 | greater good, the sinner is better; although ~according to
43 1, 22 | Enchiridion 17) that, "It is better to ~be ignorant of some
44 1, 22 | xii, 51). But whatever is ~better must be assigned to God.
45 1, 22 | 1/1~Reply OBJ 3: It is better for us not to know low and
46 1, 22 | our knowledge of what is better and ~higher; for we cannot
47 1, 23 | by God. It is, however, ~better to say that, "to God alone
48 1, 25 | what He makes He could make better?~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[25] A[
49 1, 25 | Philosopher (Metaph. vi, 19), better ~than every power is its
50 1, 25 | is its act. For form is better than matter; and action ~
51 1, 25 | its end. But nothing is better than what ~is in God; because
52 1, 25 | possibility. Hence it ~is better to say that such things
53 1, 25 | 1/1~Whether God can do better than what He does?~Aquin.:
54 1, 25 | seems that God cannot do better than He does. For whatever
55 1, 25 | a thing is so much the ~better done as it is more powerfully
56 1, 25 | God ~cannot do anything better than He does.~Aquin.: SMT
57 1, 25 | if God could have made better things than He has ~done,
58 1, 25 | therefore make anything better than He does.~Aquin.: SMT
59 1, 25 | bettered; because nothing is better than the best. But as Augustine
60 1, 25 | universe could not be ~made better by God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[
61 1, 25 | measure; and so He cannot be better. Again created ~happiness
62 1, 25 | good, and thus cannot be better. ~And the Blessed Virgin
63 1, 25 | angels, and ~so cannot be better than she is. God cannot
64 1, 25 | therefore make all things ~better than He has made them.~Aquin.:
65 1, 25 | God cannot make a thing better than ~it is itself; although
66 1, 25 | He can make another thing better than it; even as ~He cannot
67 1, 25 | goodness, God can make ~better the things He has made.
68 1, 25 | can make ~something else better than each thing made by
69 1, 25 | that God can make a thing better than He ~makes it, if "better"
70 1, 25 | better than He ~makes it, if "better" is taken substantively,
71 1, 25 | always make something else better than each individual thing: ~
72 1, 25 | the same thing in one way better than it is, and in ~another
73 1, 25 | explained above. If, however, "better" is taken ~as an adverb,
74 1, 25 | God cannot make ~anything better than He makes it, because
75 1, 25 | He ~can make something better; because He can give to
76 1, 25 | to things made by Him a ~better manner of existence as regards
77 1, 25 | created, that it should be better than it was made by God.
78 1, 25 | being supposed, cannot ~be better, on account of the most
79 1, 25 | there would be another and a better universe.~Aquin.: SMT FP
80 1, 25 | there cannot be anything better than these; just ~as there
81 1, 25 | there cannot be anything better than God.~
82 1, 29 | of God. It is, however, better to say that substance is ~
83 1, 36 | essence. It ~seems, however, better to say that because spirating
84 1, 39 | So the divine unity is better described by saying that
85 1, 39 | be forced, so that it is better to say simply that the affirmative ~
86 1, 40 | Para. 4/4~It is therefore better to say that the persons
87 1, 42 | to be greater is to be better," for the more ~perfect
88 1, 42 | perfect a thing is the better it is. Secondly, virtual
89 1, 42 | Super Ps. 2:7] said, it is better to say "ever ~born," so
90 1, 42 | by begetting Him. Or, better still, this may be referred
91 1, 47 | perfectly, ~and represents it better than any single creature
92 1, 47 | creature best, but one ~better than another. And therefore
93 1, 47 | more does God. But it ~is better for there to be many worlds
94 1, 47 | because many good things ~are better than a few. Therefore many
95 1, 47 | said ~that many worlds are better than one, this has reference
96 1, 47 | two worlds, it would be better if He had made three; and
97 1, 48 | of creatures, is all the better and more perfect if some ~
98 1, 48 | Therefore, since ~the agent is better than the action, it seems
99 1, 49 | Further, as we find good and better things, so we find evil
100 1, 49 | and ~worse. But good and better are so considered in relation
101 1, 49 | is said to be good and ~better, by reason of access to
102 1, 50 | individual. Hence it is much better for the species to be multiplied
103 1, 60 | Reply OBJ 2: As to be one is better than to be united, so there
104 1, 62 | 4/4~Consequently it is better to say that the angel had
105 1, 62 | accidental ~reward. But it is better to say that the Blessed
106 1, 64 | as to demons. But it is better to say that the same judgment
107 1, 66 | them to perfection. But a better reason can be drawn ~from
108 1, 67 | spiritual things light is better and surer: and that Christ
109 1, 70 | itself, "since the end is better than the means" (Topic.
110 1, 77 | means of a few ~remedies; better disposed is he who can acquire
111 1, 77 | means ~of many remedies; and better still, he who can by few
112 1, 39 | So the divine unity is better described by saying that
113 1, 39 | be forced, so that it is better to say simply that the affirmative ~
114 1, 40 | Para. 4/4~It is therefore better to say that the persons
115 1, 42 | to be greater is to be better," for the more ~perfect
116 1, 42 | perfect a thing is the better it is. Secondly, virtual
117 1, 42 | Super Ps. 2:7] said, it is better to say "ever ~born," so
118 1, 42 | by begetting Him. Or, better still, this may be referred
119 1, 48 | perfectly, ~and represents it better than any single creature
120 1, 48 | creature best, but one ~better than another. And therefore
121 1, 48 | more does God. But it ~is better for there to be many worlds
122 1, 48 | because many good things ~are better than a few. Therefore many
123 1, 48 | said ~that many worlds are better than one, this has reference
124 1, 48 | two worlds, it would be better if He had made three; and
125 1, 49 | of creatures, is all the better and more perfect if some ~
126 1, 49 | Therefore, since ~the agent is better than the action, it seems
127 1, 50 | Further, as we find good and better things, so we find evil
128 1, 50 | and ~worse. But good and better are so considered in relation
129 1, 50 | is said to be good and ~better, by reason of access to
130 1, 51 | individual. Hence it is much better for the species to be multiplied
131 1, 61 | Reply OBJ 2: As to be one is better than to be united, so there
132 1, 63 | 4/4~Consequently it is better to say that the angel had
133 1, 63 | accidental ~reward. But it is better to say that the Blessed
134 1, 65 | as to demons. But it is better to say that the same judgment
135 1, 67 | them to perfection. But a better reason can be drawn ~from
136 1, 68 | spiritual things light is better and surer: and that Christ
137 1, 71 | itself, "since the end is better than the means" (Topic.
138 1, 76 | means of a few ~remedies; better disposed is he who can acquire
139 1, 76 | means ~of many remedies; and better still, he who can by few
140 1, 81 | Wherefore the love of God is better than the knowledge of God;
141 1, 81 | knowledge of corporeal things is better than the love ~thereof.
142 1, 84 | intellect can understand better than another?~(8) Whether
143 1, 84 | understand one and the same thing better than ~another can?~Aquin.:
144 1, 84 | one and the same ~thing better than another can. For Augustine
145 1, 84 | person understand a thing ~better than another can."~Aquin.:
146 1, 84 | if one man ~understands better than another, it would seem
147 1, 84 | ultimate causes understands it better than the one who reduces
148 1, 84 | otherwise than as it is, either better or worse, would ~entail
149 1, 84 | understand the same thing better than someone ~else, through
150 1, 84 | as a man may ~see a thing better with his bodily sight, whose
151 1, 84 | For ~it is plain that the better the disposition of a body,
152 1, 84 | disposition of a body, the better the ~soul allotted to it;
153 1, 84 | some men have bodies ~of better disposition, their souls
154 1, 84 | memorative ~powers are of better disposition, are better
155 1, 84 | better disposition, are better disposed to understand.~
156 1, 88 | is best, and since it is ~better to understand by turning
157 1, 88 | conceptions of those who have a better understanding, unless things
158 1, 88 | denied to others who are better. If, therefore, the habit
159 1, 88 | life, excel some who are better; which ~seems unreasonable. ~
160 1, 88 | less good man may exceed a better man in bodily ~stature,
161 1, 88 | the ~future life which a better man may not have. Such knowledge,
162 1, 88 | prerogatives enjoyed by the better man.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[89]
163 1, 90 | 7): "And because ~it is better so, not absolutely, but
164 1, 93 | good-will can obtain nothing better than the vision of the Divine ~
165 1, 94 | were the case, man would be better off after ~sinning.~Aquin.:
166 1, 95 | beautiful, and all ways better disposed; so that, ~however,
167 1, 96 | restored into something better, as we shall explain further
168 1, 102 | always find what is the better. But it "is ~better that
169 1, 102 | the better. But it "is ~better that two should be together
170 1, 102 | itself is a more apt and a better ~cause of unity than several
171 1, 102 | Therefore a multitude is ~better governed by one than by
172 1, 102 | individual goods, then two are better than ~one. But if we consider
173 1, 102 | them, inasmuch as one is better than another; and one ~is
174 1, 102 | 1~OBJ 2: Further, it is better that a thing be done by
175 1, 102 | government will be so much the better in the degree the ~things
176 1, 105 | understands the same thing better than the pupil who learns
177 1, 107 | to know ~lower things is better than to love them; and to
178 1, 107 | things, ~God above all, is better than to know them.~Aquin.:
179 1, 111 | 2:3): "Esteeming others better ~than themselves."~Aquin.:
180 1, 111 | multitude; because whatever is better is more intended and more ~
181 1, 114 | constellations corporeal matter is ~better disposed for the result
182 1, 116 | alone. Therefore ~it is better to say, that by a strong
183 2, 2 | Nom. v), that "to be" is better ~than "to live," and "to
184 2, 2 | live," and "to live" is better than all that follows. But
185 2, 2 | that things that live are better than things that exist, ~
186 2, 2 | exist, ~and intelligent better than living things.~Aquin.:
187 2, 5 | happens through his being better disposed or ~ordered to
188 2, 5 | it ~seems that he must be better equipped than they. But
189 2, 5 | Coel. ii, 12). Thus he is better disposed to health ~who
190 2, 7 | knowledge proceeds from the better known to the less known. ~
191 2, 7 | found to be good or ~evil, better or worse: and this diversity
192 2, 8 | the shunning of evil is better ~described as "nolition":
193 2, 9 | Nothing hinders that which is better simply and in itself, ~from
194 2, 12 | another because it is the ~better of the two. Now one of the
195 2, 12 | reasons for which one thing is better ~than another is that it
196 2, 13 | something that seems in some way better. Therefore every ~choice
197 2, 16 | irrational animals. For ~it is better to enjoy than to use, because,
198 2, 16 | their objects, enjoyment is better than use; ~because that
199 2, 16 | appetible absolutely is better than that which is ~appetible
200 2, 18 | circumstance that makes an action better or worse, ~places the moral
201 2, 18 | circumstance that makes an action better or worse, places a ~moral
202 2, 18 | that which makes an action better or ~worse, makes it differ
203 2, 18 | circumstance that makes an action ~better or worse, constitutes a
204 2, 18 | cannot make ~the action better or worse; because what is
205 2, 18 | circumstance that ~makes an action better or worse, constitutes a
206 2, 18 | that makes a moral action better or worse, places it ~in
207 2, 18 | that makes a moral action ~better or worse, changes its species.~
208 2, 19 | reason, the intention can be better, and the will ~less good.~
209 2, 20 | will in itself is ~made better in good things, or worse
210 2, 20 | and in this respect, is better or worse. Thirdly, in point
211 2, 20 | tends to good or evil, the better or worse it is.~Aquin.:
212 2, 20 | action is specifically ~better, if better results can follow
213 2, 20 | specifically ~better, if better results can follow from
214 2, 22 | than when it is for the better: hence sorrow ~is more properly
215 2, 24 | action is like to God, the better it ~is: hence the Apostle
216 2, 24 | ix, 5). Therefore it is better ~to do such like deeds without
217 2, 24 | deliberately. Therefore he ~does a better deed, who does well without
218 2, 24 | Accordingly just as it is better that man should both will
219 2, 31 | perfect; and because it is better known, since the intellect
220 2, 31 | sensible goods are known better and more generally: and,
221 2, 32 | to men who are ~wise and better than others; the result
222 2, 34 | greatest good cannot be made better by ~addition. But pleasure
223 2, 34 | addition. But pleasure is made better by addition; since pleasure ~
224 2, 34 | together with virtue is better than pleasure without virtue.
225 2, 34 | no addition can ~make it better: whereas in regard to other
226 2, 34 | true ~that any good becomes better by the addition of another
227 2, 35 | bodily pains, which are ~better known, than in reference
228 2, 35 | evil, forasmuch as evil is ~better known by an inward apprehension.~
229 2, 38 | burdens. ~The second and better reason is because when a
230 2, 39 | according to Eccles. 7:3: "It is better to go to the ~house of mourning,
231 2, 39 | the greatest good of the better part: ~while the supreme
232 2, 39 | of which the ~pleasure is better. Consequently, a pleasure
233 2, 39 | 3: That which harms the better thing is worse than that
234 2, 40 | effect ~from a cause which is better known; for the apprehensive
235 2, 40 | power knows its ~own act better than that of the appetite.~
236 2, 42 | which ~lasts long is no better than that which lasts but
237 2, 42 | which lasts for ever any better than that which is not everlasting":
238 2, 42 | And such like good is no better ~for lasting long or for
239 2, 44 | lover, what he loves seems ~better; to him that fears, what
240 2, 45 | good is lovable, what is better is yet more lovable. But
241 2, 52 | greater ~is the same as to be better," as Augustine says (De
242 2, 61 | 2~Others, however, with better reason, take these four
243 2, 66 | And among these, one is better than another, according
244 2, 66 | men. Because one man is better disposed than another to
245 2, 66 | greater habituation, or a better natural disposition, ~or
246 2, 66 | Whether the moral virtues are better than the intellectual virtues?~
247 2, 66 | that the moral virtues are better than the ~intellectual.
248 2, 66 | necessary, and more lasting, is ~better. Now the moral virtues are "
249 2, 66 | alone. Therefore moral is better than intellectual virtue.~
250 2, 66 | intellectual virtue is better than moral virtue.~Aquin.:
251 2, 66 | hinders something from ~being better simply, e.g. "learning than
252 2, 66 | than riches," and yet not better ~relatively, i.e. "for one
253 2, 66 | merely that moral virtue is ~better relatively.~Aquin.: SMT
254 2, 66 | moral virtues. ~For it is better to give of one's own than
255 2, 66 | certain about a higher and ~better object, is preferable to
256 2, 66 | Animal. i, 5) that "it is better to know a little about ~
257 2, 67 | nature, than which nothing is better or more lovable, ~that Nature,
258 2, 71 | more lasting a good is, the better it is, so ~the longer an
259 2, 71 | Metaph. ix, 19. For it is better to do well than to be able
260 2, 71 | Therefore it would have been better to say that sin is against ~
261 2, 73 | because the life ~of grace is better than the life of nature,
262 2, 81 | OBJ 2: Further, a man can better transmit to another, that
263 2, 81 | another: thus fire heats ~better than hot water does. Now
264 2, 83 | Q[118], A[3]. And it is ~better for the soul to be thus,
265 2, 95 | But animate justice is better ~than inanimate justice,
266 2, 95 | Therefore it would have ~been better for the execution of justice
267 2, 95 | Therefore it would have been better for human acts to be directed ~
268 2, 95 | virtue by ~being admonished better than by coercion: but men
269 2, 95 | says (Rhet. i, 1), "it is better that ~all things be regulated
270 2, 97 | changed, whenever anything better occurs?~(3) Whether it is
271 2, 97 | changed, whenever something better ~occurs?~Aquin.: SMT FS
272 2, 97 | changed, whenever ~something better occurs. Because human laws
273 2, 97 | to others, if something better occurs. Therefore the same
274 2, 97 | changed, whenever anything better occurs to be enacted.~Aquin.:
275 2, 97 | is possible for something better to occur ~for legislation.~
276 2, 97 | therefore whenever something better occurs, the rule followed
277 2, 98 | man is united to God, the better his state ~becomes: wherefore
278 2, 98 | the state of clerics is better than that of the ~laity,
279 2, 99 | as being useful for the better maintaining of the ~order
280 2, 99 | duty, but as ~something better to be done. These may be
281 2, 100 | our ~neighbor. And this is better.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[100] A[
282 2, 100 | God, since our neighbor is better known to us than God is; ~
283 2, 100 | Although our neighbor is better known than God by the way ~
284 2, 102 | turtledoves the older ones are better than the young; ~while with
285 2, 107 | But now they desire a ~better, that is to say, a heavenly
286 2, 108 | good thing; and that it is better to speak without oaths,
287 2, 109 | the help of medicines is better disposed to health ~than
288 2, 111 | For "the people's good is better than the individual good,"
289 2, 111 | the leader - and this is better good, since ~the other is
290 2, 112 | Now the good of grace is better than the good of nature. ~
291 2, 112 | for grace; since he who is better prepared for grace, receives
292 2, 1 | sanctifying the Church." But it is better and more in keeping with ~
293 2, 2 | certain ~aspects thereof were better known to them when Christ
294 2, 10 | Pt. 2:21): "It had been better for ~them not to have known
295 2, 12 | Pt. 2:21: "It had been better for them not to know the
296 2, 15 | this ~leads to his having better phantasms while asleep,
297 2, 22 | soul. Consequently it is better to know than to love the
298 2, 23 | remained steadfast became better than the others, and those
299 2, 25 | more, a neighbor who is better, or one who ~is more closely
300 2, 25 | subject. Wherefore, though a better neighbor is nearer to God,
301 2, 25 | ought to love those who are better more those who are more ~
302 2, 25 | ought to love those who are better more ~than those who are
303 2, 25 | ought to love those who are better more than those who ~are
304 2, 25 | But God ~loves more the better man. Therefore man also,
305 2, 25 | charity, ought to ~love the better man more than one who is
306 2, 25 | which has more to do with ~better men than with those who
307 2, 25 | charity, we ought to love better men more than those who
308 2, 25 | us before those who are better.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[26] A[
309 2, 25 | in accordance with which better men have a ~fuller share
310 2, 25 | than he loves those who are better as to the greater good he
311 2, 25 | closely ~united to one, to be better than another, and so reach
312 2, 25 | object. In ~this respect the better a thing is, and the more
313 2, 25 | Secondly, because ~parents know better that so and so is their
314 2, 25 | will love those who ~are better more than either himself
315 2, 25 | s will: and ~there to be better is to have more good. Therefore
316 2, 25 | loves more those who are better, and consequently he loves
317 2, 25 | that a man ~will love a better man more than himself, and
318 2, 25 | first way a ~man will love better men more than himself, and
319 2, 25 | virtue and the ~reward of a better man, whereas then the will
320 2, 25 | himself more than even his better neighbors, because the intensity ~
321 2, 25 | simply ~love those who are better, according to the love of
322 2, 26 | measure?~(7) Which is the better, to love one's friend, or
323 2, 26 | enemy? (8) Which ~is the better, to love God, or one's neighbor?~
324 2, 26 | loved than ~to love. For the better charity is to be found in
325 2, 26 | those who are ~themselves better. But those who are better
326 2, 26 | better. But those who are better should be more loved. ~Therefore
327 2, 26 | nature, and, for that reason, better. Now, as the ~Philosopher
328 2, 26 | abound." Therefore it is better to be loved ~than to love,
329 2, 26 | Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 1: A better man, through being better,
330 2, 26 | better man, through being better, is more lovable; but ~through
331 2, 26 | the person he loves. For a better man does not love that ~
332 2, 26 | fails to love one who is better, as much as he ought to
333 2, 26 | the rule ~is attained the better it is, so that the more
334 2, 26 | the more we love God the better our ~love is.~Aquin.: SMT
335 2, 26 | 1/1~On the contrary, The better an action is, the more meritorious
336 2, 26 | meritorious it is. ~Now it is better to love one's friend, since
337 2, 26 | one's friend, since it is better to love a ~better man, and
338 2, 26 | it is better to love a ~better man, and the friend who
339 2, 26 | friend who loves you is better than the enemy who ~hates
340 2, 26 | therefore it is asked which ~is better or more meritorious, to
341 2, 26 | because a friend is both better and more closely united
342 2, 26 | passes over this matter, is better, and therefore its opposite
343 2, 26 | second way, however, it is better to love one's enemy than
344 2, 26 | itself, is more ardent and better than the ~love of one's
345 2, 26 | difficult, and ~at the same time better.~
346 2, 27 | The former joy is ~the better, and proceeds from charity
347 2, 28 | Caesar expresses himself much better and in a fashion at once
348 2, 28 | makes a man like God, the ~better is that virtue: since man
349 2, 28 | virtue: since man is the better for being more like God. ~
350 2, 28 | has anyone above him it is better ~to be united to that which
351 2, 28 | becomes/The throned monarch better than his crown." ~Merchant
352 2, 28 | to one who is higher and better to ~supply the defect of
353 2, 30 | according to Prov. 27:6: ~"Better are the wounds of a friend,
354 2, 30 | indeed you will give what is better than what is ~asked for,
355 2, 30 | for a needy man "money is better than ~philosophy," although
356 2, 30 | although the latter is better simply.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[
357 2, 30 | 1/1~Reply OBJ 1: It is better to give to one who is in
358 2, 30 | he who is less needy is better, and is in want ~of better
359 2, 30 | better, and is in want ~of better things, it is better to
360 2, 30 | of better things, it is better to give to him: and it is
361 2, 30 | little ~by little, but it is better still to give all at once
362 2, 30 | to be in need, for it is better that ~you should yourself
363 2, 30 | praiseworthy, and it would be better to give to ~several that
364 2, 30 | not because it would be better to give in ~abundance, but
365 2, 31 | he strives to make him do better. ~(tm)Aquin.: SMT SS Q[33]
366 2, 31 | his rebuke ~to something better. Now in the physical order
367 2, 31 | holy men, unless one thinks better of ~oneself." But one ought
368 2, 31 | But one ought not to think better of oneself than of one's ~
369 2, 31 | presume oneself to be simply better than one's prelate, ~would
370 2, 31 | presumption in ~thinking oneself better in some respect, because,
371 2, 31 | that he thinks himself any better, ~but merely that he offers
372 2, 31 | whom you thought to make a better man, ~you make worse." Now
373 2, 31 | sinner, that he may become better, but also for others, who
374 2, 33 | a long way off are much better than the one we dwell in":
375 2, 34 | that these should ~be in better repute than we are, and
376 2, 34 | those only whom we think better in some respect than ~ourselves."~
377 2, 34 | progress with those who are better than we are.~Aquin.: SMT
378 2, 37 | of necessity, since it is better for a man to quit this life, ~
379 2, 38 | number of things are done better and quicker by a number ~
380 2, 41 | that believe in Me, it were better for him that a mill-stone ~
381 2, 41 | this passage, "it is much ~better to receive a brief punishment
382 2, 41 | scandalized at the truth, it is better to allow the birth of scandal, ~
383 2, 41 | 31: ~"Be zealous for the better gifts." Wherefore neither
384 2, 41 | wilt give him something better than he asks, if thou reprove
385 2, 45 | 5) that "in art it is ~better to err voluntarily than
386 2, 45 | his craft is reputed a better craftsman than he who does
387 2, 45 | judges the common good to be better than the good of ~the individual.~
388 2, 45 | the speculative reason is ~better than that which is according
389 2, 47 | explains why we remember better what we saw when we were
390 2, 58 | often than not; yet it is better to err frequently ~through
391 2, 60 | incurred, although he be no better off; and in ~addition he
392 2, 61 | requisite that one choose the better ~man. But it would seem
393 2, 61 | sometimes preferred to the ~better, without respect of persons,
394 2, 61 | necessary to elect the ~better man, because otherwise every
395 2, 61 | necessary to elect one who is ~better, either absolutely speaking,
396 2, 62 | clerics is concerned with better things ~than corporal slayings,
397 2, 69 | closely united to him, or in a better position to help him, ~one
398 2, 71 | silence, he is nothing better that backbiteth."~Aquin.:
399 2, 71 | 22:1): "A good name is better than great riches." ~Therefore
400 2, 72 | reviling, because a ~friend is better than honor, and to be loved
401 2, 72 | honor, and to be loved is better than to be ~honored, according
402 2, 74 | everything,' you are no better than a ~murderer." Therefore
403 2, 75 | that has changed for the better, he ~would seem to receive
404 2, 79 | nearer it is to the end the better ~it is. Now moral virtues,
405 2, 81 | ask for what it had been better for us not to obtain." This ~
406 2, 81 | life, and by which they are better known to us: and also in
407 2, 81 | because thereby the end is better obtained: and thus ~attention
408 2, 81 | For the physician knows better than the sick man ~what
409 2, 81 | explanation, however, is the ~better.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[83] A[
410 2, 86 | should always be about a better good?~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[88]
411 2, 86 | need not be always about a better good. ~A greater good is
412 2, 86 | vows ~are not only about a better good.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[88]
413 2, 86 | innocent person is not a better good, but is in ~itself
414 2, 86 | be made not only about a better ~good, but also about something
415 2, 86 | come under the head of a better good. Yet ~sometimes vows
416 2, 86 | vow is not always about a ~better good.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[88]
417 2, 86 | vow ~is said to be about a better good.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[88]
418 2, 86 | pay it; and it is much better not to vow, than after a
419 2, 86 | that compels us to do ~the better things."~Aquin.: SMT SS
420 2, 86 | fasting. Therefore it would be better for him to ~fast without
421 2, 86 | iv, ~5]. Therefore, it is better to do something without
422 2, 86 | thing. Therefore it is ~no better to do a thing in fulfilment
423 2, 86 | counsel is about none but ~a better good. Therefore it is better
424 2, 86 | better good. Therefore it is better to do a deed in fulfilment
425 2, 86 | For three reasons it is better and more meritorious to
426 2, 86 | excellent the virtue the better and more ~meritorious the
427 2, 86 | inferior virtue is the ~better the more meritorious for
428 2, 86 | act of ~faith or hope is better if it be commanded by charity.
429 2, 86 | an act of chastity) are better ~and more meritorious, if
430 2, 86 | cannot be ~changed, neither a better for a worse, nor a worse
431 2, 86 | worse, nor a worse for a better." Much ~less, therefore,
432 2, 86 | now exchange for something better, or ~worse, that which one
433 2, 87 | oath, ~though he does much better if he does not keep it.~
434 2, 87 | there occurs something ~better to be done for the common
435 2, 89 | may be ~encouraged to do better: since just as being praised
436 2, 89 | does it incite the good to better things. Wherefore it is ~
437 2, 89 | But God is not incited ~to better things by man's words, both
438 2, 89 | possible for Him to grow ~better. Therefore God should not
439 2, 89 | we may ~incite him to yet better things; and that we may
440 2, 92 | most ~high God, as being better than those others, better
441 2, 92 | better than those others, better sacrifices, namely, ~the
442 2, 92 | faith, hope and charity, is better than external worship. ~
443 2, 94 | understanding, you will then do ~better to bear them in your heart
444 2, 101 | it ~possible to deem him better than ourselves, according
445 2, 101 | let each esteem others better than themselves," and thus,
446 2, 102 | Kgs. 15:22): "Obedience is better than sacrifices." Now the ~
447 2, 102 | thing ~except for something better. Therefore obedience, for
448 2, 102 | virtues is set aside, is better than other virtues.~Aquin.:
449 2, 102 | spoke, it would have been better for Saul to obey God ~than
450 2, 102 | upon the whole man: for the better part of him is excepted."
451 2, 107 | one tells the truth, the better it is. Therefore ~truth
452 2, 108 | since the useful good is better than the ~pleasurable good,
453 2, 113 | written (Prov. ~27:6): "Better are the wounds of a friend
454 2, 115 | certain other virtues are better than money ~which liberality
455 2, 115 | virtue, as though he were better than others, but that ~which
456 2, 117 | prodigal ~seems to be much better than the illiberal man."~
457 2, 118 | Ethic. v, 10), "epikeia is ~better than a certain," namely,
458 2, 118 | kind of justice, it is not ~better than all justice.~Aquin.:
459 2, 120 | chord. iii): "It would be better if the ~Jew did some useful
460 2, 120 | their womenfolk would do better to be making linen on ~the
461 2, 121 | fortitude, but something better, since the end must needs
462 2, 121 | since the end must needs be better ~than what is directed to
463 2, 121 | be good": wherefore the better ~a virtue the greater it
464 2, 122 | no proof ~of this, it is better to say that these babes
465 2, 122 | Further, it would seem better to do good to others than
466 2, 122 | the "good of the nation is better than ~the good of the individual,"
467 2, 122 | virtue being the end is better.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[124] A[
468 2, 122 | the good of the nation is ~better than the good of the individual,"
469 2, 123 | cowardice' would be a better rendering.]~We must now
470 2, 123 | within the sensuality. Or better still we may reply that ~
471 2, 126 | R.O. 6 Para. 2/4~A still better reply is that confidence
472 2, 127 | others ~and esteem them better than ourselves, in so far
473 2, 130 | De Civ. Dei v): "He is better advised ~who acknowledges
474 2, 130 | or that men ~may become better by reason of the good they
475 2, 130 | persevere therein and to become ~better. In this sense it is praiseworthy
476 2, 130 | unwilling to believe one that is better. Secondly, as regards the
477 2, 134 | whereby he may advance to better things." ~It is therefore
478 2, 139 | more ~necessary and the better it is. Now fortitude is
479 2, 139 | the good of the many, the better it ~is. Now justice and
480 2, 142 | especially from people of the better sort who are ~sometimes
481 2, 142 | with us, ~since they are better acquainted with our deeds:
482 2, 142 | Reply OBJ 1: People of the better sort make us ashamed for
483 2, 142 | the attestation of the better men carries more weight
484 2, 145 | 1~OBJ 4: Further, it is better to do a thing willingly
485 2, 150 | Mary hath chosen the better part." Of these goods those
486 2, 150 | the contemplative life is ~better than that of the active
487 2, 150 | OBJ 2: Though virginity is better than conjugal continence,
488 2, 150 | a ~married person may be better than a virgin for two reasons.
489 2, 150 | virgin to say: "I am no better than Abraham, although the
490 2, 150 | chastity of ~celibacy is better than the chastity of marriage."
491 2, 150 | now, he would have done better, if it ~were fitting for
492 2, 150 | that the private good is better ~generically. It is thus
493 2, 150 | directed to the end, the better it is. Now the end which
494 2, 151 | about serving holy men, yet better still that which ~Mary did
495 2, 152 | the dreams of good men are better than those of any other ~
496 2, 153 | 1~Whether continence is better than temperance?~Aquin.:
497 2, 153 | seem that continence is better than temperance. For it ~
498 2, 154 | the incontinent man is better than the intemperate, because
499 2, 155 | as though we might know better and have a ~clearer insight
500 2, 156 | the angry man desires, is better than the ~pleasurable or
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