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• The education of youth belongs to the priests, yet they do not take so much care of instructing them in letters, as in forming their minds and manners aright; they use all possible methods to infuse, very early, into the tender and flexible minds of children, such opinions as are both good in themselves and will be useful to their country, for when deep impressions of these things are made at that age, they follow men through the whole course of their lives, and conduce much to preserve the peace of the government, which suffers by nothing more than by vices that rise out of ill opinions.

  Thomas More

  Country, Children, Men

  Thomas More (2010). “Utopia”, p.121, Bibliolis Books

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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.

  Thomas More

  Vanity, People, Want

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• It's a poor doctor who can't cure one disease without giving you another.

  Thomas More

  Doctors, Giving, Disease

  Nancy Spannaus, Christopher White, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas More, Henry VIII (2015). “The Political Economy of the American Revolution”, p.110, Executive Intelligence Review

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• I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.

  Thomas More

  Law, Safety, Giving

  "Fictional character: Thomas More". "A Man for All Seasons", 1960.

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• On his mounting the scaffold to be beheaded: 'I pray you, Master Lieutenant, see me safely up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself.' To the executioner: 'Pick up thy spirits, Man, and be not afraid to do thyne office; my neck is very short; take heed, therefore thou strike not awry, for saving of thyne honesty.'

  Thomas More

  Life, Success, Honesty

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• Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.

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  Emotional, Individuality, Individualism

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• In Utopia, where every man has a right to everything, they all know that if care is taken to keep the public stores full, no private man can want anything; for among them there is no unequal distribution, so that no man is poor, none in necessity; and though no man has anything, yet they are all rich; for what can make a man so rich as to lead a serene and cheerful life, free from anxieties.

  Thomas More

  Taken, Men, Anxiety

  Thomas More (2016). “Utopia”, p.103, BoD – Books on Demand

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• The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.

  Thomas More

  Distance, Heaven, Way

  Thomas More, Francis Bacon, Henry Neville (1999). “Three Early Modern Utopias: Thomas More: Utopia / Francis Bacon: New Atlantis / Henry Neville: The Isle of Pines”, p.12, OUP Oxford

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• To love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain.

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  God, God Love, This Life

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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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  Art, Flower, Sky

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• The chief aim of their constitution is that, whenever public needs permit, all citizens should be free, so far as possible, to withdraw their time and energy from the service of the body, and devote themselves to the freedom and culture of the mind. For that, they think, is the real happiness of life.

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  Time, Real, Thinking

  1516 Utopia (English translation1556), bk.2.

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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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  Men, Thinking, Crow

  Thomas More (2016). “More: Utopia”, p.14, Cambridge University Press

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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.

  Thomas More

  Important, Gold, Substance

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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.

  Thomas More

  Mean, Punishment, Thieves

  "Utopia". Book by Thomas More, 1516.

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• Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.

  Thomas More

  Inspirational, Matter, Lawyer

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• A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

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  Hope, Men, Drowning

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• A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.

  Thomas More

  Evil, Needs, Tales

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• Who does more earnestly long for a change than he who is uneasy in his present circumstances? And who run to create confusions with so desperate a boldness as those who have nothing to lose, hope to gain by them?

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  Change, Running, Long

  Thomas More (2012). “Utopia”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.

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  Safe, I Can

  Saint Thomas More, Alvaro De Silva (2001). “The Last Letters of Thomas More”, p.188, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.

  Thomas More

  Men, Rights, Law

  Thomas More (2009). “Utopia”, p.38, Cosimo, Inc.

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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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  Peace, Delight, Chivalry

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• They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.

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  People, Matter, Lawyer

  Utopia bk. 1 (1516)

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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.

  Thomas More

  Life, Death, Animal

  Thomas More (2016). “More: Utopia”, p.58, Cambridge University Press

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• And 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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  Change, Fall, Disease

  Thomas More (2010). “Utopia”, p.44, Bibliolis Books

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• To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.

  Thomas More

  Gold, Use, May

  Thomas More (1997). “Utopia”, p.80, Wordsworth Editions

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