By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.
THOMAS MORENo 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.
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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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Food is an implement of magic, and only the most coldhearted rationalist could squeeze the juices of life out of it and make it bland. In a true sense, a cookbook is the best source of psychological advice and the kitchen the first choice of room for a therapy of the world.
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Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.
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If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.
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And peradventure we have more cause to thank Him for our loss than for our winning; for His wisdom better seeth what is good for us than we do ourselves.
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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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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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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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There 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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Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich – for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?
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They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
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He travels best that knows when to return.
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Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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