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.
THOMAS MOREThe servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
More Thomas More Quotes
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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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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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Howbeit, this one thing, son, I assure you on my faith, that if the parties will at hands call for justice, then, all were it my father stood on the one side, and the devil on the other, his cause being good, the devil should have right.
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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention . . . concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens; everye man or his owne parte.
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The 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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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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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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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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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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