Oh! blame not the bard.
THOMAS MOREIt is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.
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It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.
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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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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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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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If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.
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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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Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.
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He travels best that knows when to return.
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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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Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.
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Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody’s under the frightful necessity of becoming, first a thief, and then a corpse.
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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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