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Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.

Thomas More

Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
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Hard Learning People
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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Life Mystery Nature Spiritual Vision
Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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Government Law Leadership
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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Complication Fall Oneself Removal
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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Aware Control Direction Man Myself Strength
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.
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Act Enjoyment Humanity Oneself Pleasure Wrong
One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but of a jailor.
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Deep Live Man Perspective Pleasure Wealth
Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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Destruction Evil Greed Justice
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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Gold Substance Understand Value
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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Delight Manner Peace
It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.
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Business Chance Life Nature Ourselves
What is deferred is not avoided.
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Avoid One Liner
It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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Happiness Live Possible
Pride thinks it’s own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
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Bright Fortune Happiness Pride Shine Thinking
The 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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Capability Compassion Creature Feeling Human Nature
Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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Campaign Hold Office

Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.

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