A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
THOMAS MOREEverywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
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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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And peradventure we have more cause to thank Him for our loss than for our winning; for His wisdom better seeth what is good for us than we do ourselves.
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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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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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Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.
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If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
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The 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.
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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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Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.
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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.
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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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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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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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