The devil…the prowde spirite…cannot endure to be mocked. - Thomas More
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. - Thomas More
The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace. - Thomas More
One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but of a jailor. - Thomas More
It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best. - Thomas More
No one, on his deathbed, ever regretted having been a Catholic. - Thomas More