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. — Thomas More Copy Share Image
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… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
“But what they find most amazing and despicable is the insanity of those who all but worship the rich, to whom they owe nothing… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
"Tell me, what's Love?" said Youth, one day, To drooping Age, who crost his way, "It is a sunny hour of play, For which… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
“Why do you suppose they made you king in the first place?' I ask him. 'Not for your benefit, but for theirs. They meant… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
“This lively health, when entirely free from all mixture of pain, of itself gives an inward pleasure, independent of all external objects of delight;… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
Nobody sees a flower really,it is so small. We haven't time,and to see takes time- like to have a friend takes time. One of… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
“(...) personal prejudice and financial greed are the two great evils that threaten courts of law, and once they get the upper hand they… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others. — Thomas More Copy Share Image
In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want - or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others. — Thomas More Copy Share Image
“The leaving him thus did not a little gratify one that was more fond of travelling than of returning home to be buried in… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
