Why did Satan choose to fall?

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Did someone or something tempt Satan to fall or was it because of his fallen nature? Do angels have free will?
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Saint Thomas Aquinas maintained that Satan fell right after he was created.
An earlier discussion on Catholic Answers deal with some of your questions, which you may like seeing. This is at Do angels and demons have free will?
 
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Did someone or something tempt Satan to fall or was it because of his fallen nature? Do angels have free will?
Thank you!
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The devil was created good with good nature and choose malice through free will.
Said the devil: Isaiah 14:13-14: “I will ascend into Heaven…I will be like the Most High.”

Catechism of the Catholic Church
392 Scripture speaks of a sin of these angels.269 This “fall” consists in the free choice of these created spirits, who radically and irrevocably rejected God and his reign. We find a reflection of that rebellion in the tempter’s words to our first parents: "You will be like God."270 The devil “has sinned from the beginning”; he is “a liar and the father of lies”.271
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He wants to be his own master instead of doing God’s will.

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The fallen angels fell because of pride, the root of all evil, the cause of our sins as well.
 
Out of pride and arrogance. He chose to reign in Hell rather than to serve in Heaven.
 
Pride and envy of Our Lady and Our Lord when he was told the divine plan
 
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Did someone or something tempt Satan to fall or was it because of his fallen nature? Do angels have free will?
Thank you!
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Essentially, Satan fell because he chose himself over all that was good and holy.

He served his own good at the expense of a greater good. He chose not to serve the good he was created for, but only the good of himself. All evil is essentially self-centred, a service to ones-self at the expense of what is truly right.

The rest is a mystery.
 
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