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Full Idea
The will is not compelled to move, for it doesn't have to want the pleasant things set before it.
Gist of Idea
The will is not compelled to move, even if pleasant things are set before it
Source
Thomas Aquinas (Quaestiones Disputatae de Malo [1271], Q6.h to 21)
Book Ref
Aquinas,Thomas: 'Selected Philosophical Writings', ed/tr. McDermott,Timothy [OUP 1993], p.183