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.
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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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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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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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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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.
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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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What is deferred is not avoided.
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Food is an implement of magic, and only the most coldhearted rationalist could squeeze the juices of life out of it and make it bland. In a true sense, a cookbook is the best source of psychological advice and the kitchen the first choice of room for a therapy of the world.
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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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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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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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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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