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.
JOHN LOCKEFortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
More John Locke Quotes
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The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
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Revolt is the right of the people
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There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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I do not say this, that I think there should be no difference of opinions in conversation, nor opposition in men’s discourses… ‘Tis not the owning one’s dissent from another, that I speak against, but the manner of doing it.
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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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Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed
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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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A criminal who, having renounced reason … hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tiger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security.
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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.
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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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[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
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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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