Thomas More Quotes

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• You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.
• For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes…
• 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…
• Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
• One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
• Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men's hearts become stronger…
• 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…
• 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…
• If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
• Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich - for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?
• What is deferred is not avoided.
• 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.
• Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
• Every tribulation which ever comes our way either is sent to be medicinal, if we will take it as such, or may become medicinal, if…
• 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,…
• In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the…
• The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
• 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…
• I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake
• It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.

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