Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.
JOHN LOCKEWhoever 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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Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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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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Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison’d the fountain.
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There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
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It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
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In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
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The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs … has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.
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Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.
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The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
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What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
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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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A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
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I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.
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