Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.
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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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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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Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
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Your love has build me from strength to strength. It has made me a stronger and better person than I was. There is nothing that love cannot change darling. Once you fall in love, even wars turn to love stories.
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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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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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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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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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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.
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Howbeit, 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.
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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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No 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.
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By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.
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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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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 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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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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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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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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