He that makes use of another’s fancy or necessity to sell ribbons or cloth dearer to him than to another man at the same time, cheats him.
JOHN LOCKESince 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.
More John Locke Quotes
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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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The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of.
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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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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
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There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
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That which parents should take care of… is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
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Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.
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Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.
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In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
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Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.
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I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other.
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There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.
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The greatest part of mankind … are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.
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A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
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