sententiae

a commonplace book for EGL 606

“Truth in fact is the only quality at which I should have aimed, or did aim, in writing this book” (109)

“For, as I’ve taken particular pains to avoid untruths in the book, so I’d rather make an honest mistake than say what I don’t believe.  In short, I’d rather be truthful than correct” (110)

from Thomas More’s letter to Peter Giles in reference to Utopia