Supplement, Q98, Article 4
Note: This Supplement to the Third Part was compiled after Aquinas's death by Regnald of Piperno, out of material from Aquinas's much earlier "Commentary on the Sentences".
Summa Theologica (1265–1274)
Context: Even as in the blessed in heaven there will be most perfect charity, so in the damned there will be the most perfect hate. Wherefore as the saints will rejoice in all goods, so will the damned grieve for all goods. Consequently the sight of the happiness of the saints will give them very great pain; hence it is written (Isaiah 26:11): "Let the envious people see and be confounded, and let fire devour Thy enemies." Therefore they will wish all the good were damned.
“Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship.”
Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church
Source: Quaestiones disputatae: De caritate (ca. 1270) http://dhspriory.org/thomas/QDdeVirtutibus2.htm#4
Lydia Maria Child (1802–1880) American abolitionist, author and women's rights activist
1840s, Letters from New York (1843) <br class="br">Source: Letters from New York http://www.bartleby.com/66/61/12261.html, vol. 1, letter 34
“Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.”
Novalis (1772–1801) German poet and writer
Fichte Studies § 651
“Perfect love casteth out fear, the Bible says; but, to speak it reverently, so does perfect hate.”
John Buchan book Prester John
Source: Prester John (1910), Ch. IX
Robert Anton Wilson (1932–2007) American author and polymath
Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati (1977), p. 84
Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era
Old Pictures in Florence, xvii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
