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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More Thomas More Quotes
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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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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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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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Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
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There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.
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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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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
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For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.
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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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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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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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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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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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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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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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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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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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Friendship demands attention.
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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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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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