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 MOREThe most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.
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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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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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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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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Friendship demands attention.
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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 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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Pride thinks it’s own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
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What is deferred is not avoided.
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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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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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It’s wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else’s enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose.
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