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 MOREAnd 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.
More Thomas More Quotes
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Who does more earnestly long for a change than he who is uneasy in his present circumstances? And who run to create confusions with so desperate a boldness as those who have nothing to lose, hope to gain by them?
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There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.
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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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The increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness.
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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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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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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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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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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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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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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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