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Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.

John Locke

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
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Balance Integrity Men
To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
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Reason Titles Two
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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Ends Freedom Law
It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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Day Differences Labor May
Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it
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Strengthening Struggle Way
Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain.
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Children Pain Suffering
Understanding like the eye; whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own subject.
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Art Distance Notice Pain Perceive
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
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Demand May Men
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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Ideas Mind Signification Use
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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Ideas Memories Sight
Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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Common Errors Neglect
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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Dream Philosophical Reflection
Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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Freedom Names Play
Not time is the measure of movement but: …each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
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Ideas Management Movement Time
Children have as much mind to show that they are free, that their own good actions come from themselves, that they are absolute and independent, as any of the proudest of you grown men, think of them as you please.
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Children Independent Thinking
Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself…She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men.
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Lying Men Procure Truth

Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.

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