Thomas More Quotes - Page 3

• 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.

  Tomás Moro

  Vanity, People, Want

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

  Tomás Moro

  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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• La educación de la juventud corresponde a los sacerdotes, pero éstos no se preocupan tanto de instruirla en las letras como de formar correctamente sus mentes y modales; emplean todos los métodos posibles para infundir, muy pronto, en las mentes tiernas y flexibles de los niños, las opiniones que son buenas en sí mismas y que serán útiles a su país, porque cuando se hacen impresiones profundas de estas cosas a esa edad, siguen a los hombres durante todo el curso de sus vidas, y contribuyen mucho a preservar la paz del gobierno, que no sufre más que por los vicios que surgen de las malas opiniones.

  Tomás Moro

  País, Niños, Hombres

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

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• Le daría al Diablo el beneficio de la ley, por mi propia seguridad.

  Tomás Moro

  Derecho, Seguridad, Dar

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

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• Al subir al patíbulo para ser decapitado: "Os ruego, señor teniente, que me subáis con seguridad, y que para bajar me dejéis cambiar de lugar". Al verdugo: "Anímate, hombre, y no temas hacer tu oficio; mi cuello es muy corto; ten cuidado, pues, de no golpear mal, por salvar tu honestidad".

  Tomás Moro

  Life, Success, Honesty

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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.

  Tomás Moro

  Taken, Men, Anxiety

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

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• Nuestros síntomas emocionales son preciosas fuentes de vida e individualidad.

  Tomás Moro

  Emotional, Individuality, Individualism

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

  Tomás Moro

  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.

  Tomás Moro

  God, God Love, This Life

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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.

  Tomás Moro

  Time, Real, Thinking

  1516 Utopía (traducción inglesa1556), bk.2.

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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.

  Tomás Moro

  Art, Flower, Sky

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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.

  Tomás Moro

  Mean, Punishment, Thieves

  "Utopia". Book by Thomas More, 1516.

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• Es natural, por supuesto, que cada uno piense que sus opiniones son las mejores: el cuervo ama a su polluelo y el mono a su cachorro.

  Tomás Moro

  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.

  Tomás Moro

  Important, Gold, Substance

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• Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.

  Tomás Moro

  Inspirational, Matter, Lawyer

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• Un hombre que se ahoga se agarra a una paja.

  Tomás Moro

  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.

  Tomás Moro

  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?

  Tomás Moro

  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.

  Tomás Moro

  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.

  Tomás Moro

  Hombres, Derechos, Ley

  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.

  Tomás Moro

  Peace, Delight, Chivalry

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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.

  Tomás Moro

  Vida, muerte, animal

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

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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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• 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.

  Tomás Moro

  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.

  Tomás Moro

  Gold, Use, May

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

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