A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
JOHN LOCKEA sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
More John Locke Quotes
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[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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Who hath a prospect of the different state of perfect happiness or misery that attends all men after this life, depending on their behavior, the measures of good and evil that govern his choice are mightily changed.
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So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.
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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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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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If you punish him for what he sees you practise yourself, he… will be apt to interpret it the peevishness and arbitrary imperiousness of a father, who, without any ground for it, would deny his son the liberty and pleasure he takes himself.
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[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
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Tis true that governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit everyone who enjoys a share of protection should pay out of his estate his proportion of the maintenance of it.
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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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It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
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Revolt is the right of the people
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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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There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
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Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
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