Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich – for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?
THOMAS MORENobody owns anything but everyone is rich – for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?
THOMAS MOREThey have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
THOMAS MORETwo evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
THOMAS MOREThe Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.
THOMAS MOREYou wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
THOMAS MOREA man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
THOMAS MOREA good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
THOMAS MOREWe cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
THOMAS MOREThey wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
THOMAS MOREAnyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
THOMAS MOREOne of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
THOMAS MOREIt’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
THOMAS MOREA drowning man will clutch at a straw.
THOMAS MOREFriendship demands attention.
THOMAS MOREOccupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
THOMAS MOREThe 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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