“We ought to cherish the body. Our body's substance is not from an evil principle, as the Manicheans imagine, but from God. And therefore, we ought to cherish the body by the friendship of love, by which we love God.”

—  Thomas Aquinas , book Summa Theologica

II–II, q. 25, art. 5
Summa Theologica (1265–1274)

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