Thomas Aquinas

It would be easy for me to speak like this just as you did if I were in your condition. But now I am impeded by a pain which neither speech nor silence does not take away, and so he continues, "But what am I to do? If I speak, my pain will not be stilled and if I keep silence, it will not go away from me." For there are two kinds of pain. One is interior and is called sadness. This proceeds from the experience of a present evil. …

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