That which parents should take care of… is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
JOHN LOCKE[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.
More John Locke Quotes
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Whoever uses force without Right … puts himself into a state of War with those, against whom he uses it, and in that state all former Ties are canceled, all other Rights cease, and every one has a Right to defend himself, and to resist the Aggressor.
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I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet.
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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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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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Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other.
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Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.
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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 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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The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.
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Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
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