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Thomas More Quotes

Thomas More quotes about thinking

English Author February 7, 1478 – July 6, 1535

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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. Thomas More
The Utopians call those nations that come and ask magistrates from them Neighbours; but those to whom they have been of more particular service, Friends; and as all other nations are perpetually either making leagues or breaking them, they never enter into an alliance with any state. They think leagues are useless things, and believe that if the common ties of humanity do not knit men together, the faith of promises will have no great effect; and they are the more confirmed in this by what... Thomas More
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Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others. Thomas More
[how can anyone] be silly enough to think himself better than other people, because his clothes are made of finer woolen thread than theirs. After all, those fine clothes were once worn by a sheep, and they never turned it into anything better than a sheep. Thomas More
And, indeed, though they differ concerning other things, yet all agree in this: that they think there is one Supreme Being that made and governs the world, whom they call, in the language of their country, Mithras. Thomas More

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