Date: 1273

"For the body obeys the soul blindly without any contradiction, in those things in which it has a natural aptitude to be moved by the soul: whence the Philosopher says (Polit. i, 3) that the 'soul rules the body with a despotic command' as the master rules his slave: wherefore the entire movement...

— St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)

Date: 1273

"Hence the Philosopher says (Polit. i, 3) that "the soul rules the body like a despot," i.e. as a master rules his slave, who has no right to rebel."

— St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)

Date: 1273

"As the gloss says, 'in the sin of fornication the soul is the body's slave in a special sense, because at the moment of sinning it can think of nothing else': whereas the pleasure of gluttony, although carnal, does not so utterly absorb the reason."

— St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)

Date: 1273

"The members of the body are not principles but merely organs of action: wherefore they are compared to the soul which moves them, as a slave who is moved but moves no other."

— St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)

Date: 1273

"Therefore the consent to a sinful act always proceeds from the higher reason: because, as Augustine says (De Trin. xii, 12), 'the mind cannot effectively decide on the commission of a sin, unless by its consent, whereby it wields its sovereign power of moving the members to action, or of restrai...

— St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)

Date: 1273

"On the contrary, Augustine proves (De Lib. Arb. i, 11) that 'nothing else than his own will makes man's mind the slave of his desire.'"

— St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)

Date: 1273

"Further, whoever sins mortally, becomes the slave of the devil, according to Jn. 8:34: 'Whosoever committeth sin is the slave of sin.'"

— St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)

Date: 1389

"The soule ... muste suffre for the bonde of the body that he is joyned to."

— Trevisa, John (b. c. 1342, d. in or before 1402); Bartholomeus (1203-1272)

Date: 1389

"Remigius diffineth a soule in this manere: a soule is a bodiles substaunce reulinge a body."

— Trevisa, John (b. c. 1342, d. in or before 1402); Bartholomeus (1203-1272)

Date: February 28, 2025

"Because yeah, claiming that Russia did not invade Ukraine and that Zelenskyy is some kind of dictator sure sounds like Putin is attached to Trump’s brain like some kind of space slug, even if a few days later Trump denied he said it."

— Jones, Marcie