A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also.
JOHN LOCKERevolt is the right of the people
More John Locke Quotes
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Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain.
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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
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He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.
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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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Since nothing appears to me to give Children so much becoming Confidence and Behavior, and so raise them to the conversation of those above their Age, as Dancing. I think they should be taught to dance as soon as they are capable of learning it.
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There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss
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Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
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Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
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To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
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