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 MOREBecause 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.
More Thomas More Quotes
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If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.
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I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.
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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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Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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Nor can they understand why a totally useless substance like gold should now, all over the world, be considered far more important than human beings, who gave it such value as it has, purely for their own convenience.
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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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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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Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.
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