Quotation Listing
Thomas Aquinas
- It was right for the woman to be made from a rib of a man; first, to signify the social union of man and woman, for the woman should neither use authority over man, and so she was not made from his head; nor was it right for her to be subject to man's contempt as his slave, and so she was not made from his feet...
- Thomas Aquinas, The Production of the Woman
Source: The Past Speaks: Sources and Problems in English History. Lacey Baldwin Smith and Jean Reeder Smith, Lexington, MA & Toronto: D.C. Heath and Company, 1993. 164.
- Now according to [civil] laws it is just for buyer and seller to deceive one another, and this occurs by the seller selling a thing for more than it is worth, and the buyer buying a thing for less than it is worth. Therefore, it is lawful to sell a thing for more than its worth.
- Thomas Aquinas, Of Cheating, Which Is Committed in Buying and Selling
Source: The Past Speaks: Sources and Problems in English History. Lacey Baldwin Smith and Jean Reeder Smith, Lexington, MA & Toronto: D.C. Heath and Company, 1993. 132.
