A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
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.
More John Locke Quotes
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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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Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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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.
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Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.
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That which parents should take care of… is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
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How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
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Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the insignificancy of their expressions to be inquired into.
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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.
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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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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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The senses at first let in particular Ideas, and furnish the yet empty Cabinet: And the Mind by degrees growing familiar with some of them, they are lodged in the Memory, and Names got to them.
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A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
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Don’t tell me what I can’t do!
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To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
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Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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