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“Venial Sin recedes from the ordination of the law but does not destroy the ordination of the law.”

“We call incurable and mortal a disease that destroys a life principle.”

“Humans beings who sin have lost free choice regarding freedom from moral fault and unhappiness but not regarding freedom from coercion.”

“If every effect were to result from a natural cause, and every natural cause necessarily to produce its effect, the. Everything would be necessary. Both suppositions are false.”

“True is a concept that exists in the mind. It has a more formal element than the good does, and more power to move as regards the object. The good has more power to move as regards the end.”

“The will moves the intellect to activity, and the will is moved by itself, not by another power. An object good is every respect necessarily moves the will. So also necessary truths (cannot conceived to be false) move the intellect, and contingent truths (which can be conceived to be false) do not.”

“Human beings, although they necessarily will happiness, do not necessarily will any of the things leading to happiness.”

“Happiness is a condition made complete by combining all good things.”

“It does not seem meritorious or demeritorious for persons to do necessarily what they could not avoid doing.”