What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
THOMAS MOREWhat though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
THOMAS MOREThere are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.
THOMAS MOREThe 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 MOREThere 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.
THOMAS MOREA pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
THOMAS MORETake something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.
THOMAS MOREMost people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
THOMAS MORENo 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 MORESee me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
THOMAS MORELaws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
THOMAS MOREFor men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.
THOMAS MOREWhat is deferred is not avoided.
THOMAS MOREI’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
THOMAS MOREA good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
THOMAS MOREHowbeit, 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.
THOMAS MOREIt is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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