12 quotes
English statesman, lawyer and philosopher (1478–1535)
“We are all in the same cart, going to execution; how can I hate anyone or wish anyone harm?”
"What though youth gave love and roses Age still leaves us friends and wine."
on Love
"The heart that has truly loved never forgets but as truly loves on to the close."
"For as love is oftentimes won with beauty, so it is not kept, preserved, and continued, but by virtue and obedience."
"I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first."
on Faith
"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."
on Justice
"Isn't this conception of absolute justice absolutely unjust?"
"Some men may be snared by beauty alone, but none can be held except by virtue and compliance."
"Alas! how light a cause may move dissention between hearts that love!"
"A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him."
"It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best."
on Wisdom
"The change of the word does not alter the matter"
on Truth
