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Thomas More quotes for UPSC

4 sourced quotes by Thomas More on ethics & morality, integrity & honesty, character & virtue, relationships & friendship, with a use case for each in GS4, Essay and interviews.

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They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
— Thomas MoreCh. 6 : Of the Travelling of the Utopians
Use itEssay on materialism: absurd that gold is valued above human beings.
I die the king's faithful servant, and God's first.
— Thomas MoreWords on the scaffold, attributed in The Essentials of Freedom : The Idea and Practice of Ordered Liberty in the Twentieth Century as explor
Use itGS4 on conscience vs authority: loyal servant, but conscience first.
Translation: This vice [Pride] does not measure happiness so much by its own conveniences, as by the miseries of others.
Use itGS4: pride measures happiness by others' misery — envy and ego.
For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble: and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.
— Thomas MoreRichard III and His Miserable End (1543)
Use itLife: we etch wrongs in marble, kindnesses in dust — reverse it.

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