The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
THOMAS MOREAnd 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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Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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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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For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.
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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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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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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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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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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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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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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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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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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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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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