Quotes by : Thomas More

The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good....

and, indeed, nature has so made us, that we all love to be flattered and to please ourselves with our....

In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability....

...if pride, that plague of human nature, that source of so much misery, did not hinder it; for this....

Is not that government both unjust and ungrateful, that is so prodigal of it's favors to those called....

The change of the word does not alter the matter

One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not....

No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want - or in the case of human beings, from....

Another kind of bodily pleasure is that which results from an undisturbed and vigorous constitution of....

It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.