Thomas More Quotes

Ta hãy can đảm nhìn nhận thực tế, bạn sẽ không bao giờ có một cuộc sống bình thường được nữa. Bạn chỉ là mối phiền hà cho người khác và một gánh nặng cho chính bạn - thực tế là bạn tồn tại nhưng chẳng khác gì đã chết. Vậy tại sao phải tiếp tục nằm đây cho vi trùng đục ruỗng mình nữa? Cuộc đời đã khốn khổ đến vậy, sao còn nấn ná làm chi? Bạn đang là tù nhân trong một phòng tra tấn, sao không vượt thoát ra ngoài để tìm về một cõi tốt lành hơn? Chỉ cần bạn ngỏ lời, chúng tôi sẽ thu xếp cho bạn được giải thoát. Lẽ thường ai chẳng muốn được nhẹ nhàng.

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 to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this but that you first make thieves and then punish them?’ “While

Your friend Plato holds that commonwealths will only be happy when either philosophers rule or rulers philosophize: how remote happiness must appear when philosophers won't even deign to share their thoughts with kings.

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

The Utopians fail to understand why anyone should be so fascinated by the dull gleam of a tiny bit of stone, when he has all the stars in the sky to look at.

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

The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.

...you are bound to bear yourself as agreeably as you can towards those whom nature or chance or your own choice has made the companions of your life.

A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.

როგორ შემიძლია ვინმე მძულდეს, როცა ყველა ერთ ურემში ვზივართ, რომელიც სიკვდილისაკენ მიგვაქანებს.

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.

Now there was a young gentleman which had married a merchant's wife. And having a little wanton money, which him thought burned out the bottom of his purse, in the first year of his wedding took his wife with him and went over sea, for none other errand but to see Flanders and France and ride out one summer in those countries.

what you can’t put right you must try to make as little wrong as possible. For things will never be perfect, until human beings are perfect.

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 good arts of peace. They are generally more set on acquiring new kingdoms by hook or by crook than on governing well those that they already have.

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.