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Saint Sir Thomas More

Utopia

  • Johnny Rustishhas quoted6 years ago
    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.’
  • nevena3005has quoted6 months ago
    Show the sun with a lantern.
  • nevena3005has quoted6 months ago
    More’s earnest character caused him while studying law to aim at the subduing of the flesh, by wearing a hair shirt, taking a log for a pillow, and whipping himself on Fridays.
  • Bertrand Russellhas quoted3 years ago
    “They think it is an evidence of true wisdom for a man to pursue his own advantage as far as the laws allow it, they account it piety to prefer the public good to one’s private concerns, but they think it unjust for a man to seek for pleasure by snatching another man’s pleasures from him; and, on the contrary, they think it a sign of a gentle and good soul for a man to dispense with his own advantage for the good of others, and that by this means a good man finds as much pleasure one way as he parts with another; for as he may expect the like from others when he may come to need it, so, if that should fail him, yet the sense of a good action, and the reflections that he makes on the love and gratitude of those whom he has so obliged, gives the mind more pleasure than the body could have found in that from which it had restrained itself. They are also persuaded that God will make up the loss of those small pleasures with a vast and endless joy, of which religion easily convinces a good soul.
  • Bertrand Russellhas quoted3 years ago
    One rule observed in their council is, never to debate a thing on the same day in which it is first proposed; for that is always referred to the next meeting, that so men may not rashly and in the heat of discourse engage themselves too soon, which might bias them so much that, instead of consulting the good of the public, they might rather study to support their first opinions, and by a perverse and preposterous sort of shame hazard their country rather than endanger their own reputation, or venture the being suspected to have wanted foresight in the expedients that they at first proposed; and therefore, to prevent this, they take care that they may rather be deliberate than sudden in their motions.
  • Bertrand Russellhas quoted3 years ago
    ‘If a man,’ says he, ‘were to see a great company run out every day into the rain and take delight in being wet—if he knew that it would be to no purpose for him to go and persuade them to return to their houses in order to avoid the storm, and that all that could be expected by his going to speak to them would be that he himself should be as wet as they, it would be best for him to keep within doors, and, since he had not influence enough to correct other people’s folly, to take care to preserve himself.’
  • Dmitrii Timofeevhas quoted3 years ago
    that he both furnished them plentifully with all things necessary
  • Dmitrii Timofeevhas quoted3 years ago
    The leaving him thus did not a little gratify one that was more fond of travelling than of returning home to be buried in his own country
  • Nefeli Kavounihas quoted3 years ago
    but let me pass without giving me any trouble, because they hope for nothing—no more, in faith, than if I were a priest;
  • Nefeli Kavounihas quoted3 years ago
    robbers prove sometimes gallant soldiers, so soldiers often prove brave robbers, so near an alliance there is between those two sorts of life
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