It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
THOMAS MOREMost people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
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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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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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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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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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What is deferred is not avoided.
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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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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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The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
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If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
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Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.
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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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Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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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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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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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.
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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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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 state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell whom he might trust or whom he might fear.
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Howbeit, this one thing, son, I assure you on my faith, that if the parties will at hands call for justice, then, all were it my father stood on the one side, and the devil on the other, his cause being good, the devil should have right.
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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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