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.
JOHN LOCKESuccess in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
More John Locke Quotes
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Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler.
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Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
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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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The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
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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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What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them
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Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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You shall find, that there cannot be a greater spur to the attaining what you would have the eldest learn, and know himself, than to set him upon teaching it his younger brothers and sisters.
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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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There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
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Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.
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Man is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.
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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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