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.
THOMAS MOREIt is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
More Thomas More Quotes
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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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They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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Every tribulation which ever comes our way either is sent to be medicinal, if we will take it as such, or may become medicinal, if we will make it such, or is better than medicinal, unless we forsake it.
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A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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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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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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Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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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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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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