By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men. THOMAS MORE Bribe
Pride thinks it’s own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others. THOMAS MORE Fortune
A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor. THOMAS MORE
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. THOMAS MORE ComplicationOneselfRemoval
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. THOMAS MORE