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There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

John Locke

There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
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Dark Light Player
Revolt is the right of the people
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People Revolt Right
A criminal who, having renounced reason … hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tiger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security.
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Criminal Men War
In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
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Example Imitation
Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight.
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Ideas Memories Sight
Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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Eye Grateful Light
It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
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Argument Command Penalties
The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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Atheism Church Men
When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.
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Degrees Landed Talk
He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.
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Order Respect Son
The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs … has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.
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Age Gretest Mischie World
When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.
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Dream Philosophical Reflection
[H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men’s blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced to the contrary.
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Blood Men Thinking
No peace and security among mankind-let alone common friendship-can ever exist as long as people think that governments get their authority from God and that religion is to be propagated by force of arms.
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Government Long Thinking
We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us: nor is it to be wondered at in children, who better understand what they see, than what they hear.
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Chameleon Children Wonder
Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.
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Book Men Thinking

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