Two 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.
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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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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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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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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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There 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.
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Oh! blame not the bard.
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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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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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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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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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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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Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower: Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented sigh.
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The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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They 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.
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Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody’s under the frightful necessity of becoming, first a thief, and then a corpse.
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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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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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