No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want – or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you’re better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.
THOMAS MOREThere are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.
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It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.
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To love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain.
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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
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Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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What is deferred is not avoided.
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The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.
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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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Pride thinks it’s own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
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Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men’s hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words.
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
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The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.
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Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower: Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented sigh.
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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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It’s wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else’s enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose.
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They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.
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