Source: Accepting the Universe (1920), p.108
“There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.”
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1840s, Letters from New York (1843)
Source: Letters from New York http://www.bartleby.com/66/57/12260.html, vol. 1, letter 33
“This vice [Pride] does not measure happiness so much by its own conveniences, as by the miseries of others.”
Haec non suis commodis prosperitatem, sed ex alienis metitur incommodis.
Haec non suis commodis prosperitatem, sed ex alienis metitur incommodis.
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Alternate translation: [Pride] measures her prosperity not by her own goods but by others' wants.
Source: Utopia (1516), Ch. 9 : Of the Religions of the Utopians
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