"The things that we love tell us what we are."
"Affirmative precepts are distinguished from negative whenever one is not comprised in the other; thus, that of honoring parents does not comprise that of not killing, and vice versa."
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Source: St Thomas Aquinas (2013). “Summa Theologica, Volume 1”, p.466, Cosimo, Inc.
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