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A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.

John Locke

The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
JOHN LOCKE

Atheism Church Men
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
JOHN LOCKE

Demand May Men
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.
JOHN LOCKE

Balance Law Punishment
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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Ignorance Knowing Men
Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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Appetite Children Curiosity
The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
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Positive Things Shadow
No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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Knowledge Philosophical Science
[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.
JOHN LOCKE

Blood Men 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
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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Foundation Happiness Liberty
Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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Fighting Mean Opponents
So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.
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Beast Creature Men Rational
Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can’t do?
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Anyone Country People Tell
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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Communication Current Rude
There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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Heaven Way Wealth
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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Given Mean Provision

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