Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
THOMAS MORETwo evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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He travels best that knows when to return.
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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.
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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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A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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Every tribulation which ever comes our way either is sent to be medicinal, if we will take it as such, or may become medicinal, if we will make it such, or is better than medicinal, unless we forsake it.
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Friendship demands attention.
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One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but of a jailor.
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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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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 times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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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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Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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