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.
JOHN LOCKEFortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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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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If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from sensation or reflection, it will lead us farther than at first, perhaps, we should have imagined.
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We are born with faculties and powers capable almost of anything, such at least as would carry us farther than can easily be imagined: but it is only the exercise of those powers, which gives us ability and skill in any thing, and leads us towards perfection.
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Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of anybody, even of their legislators, whenever they shall be so foolish, or so wicked, as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject.
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It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
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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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There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.
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Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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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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[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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Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
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