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I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
John Locke
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John Locke
Age: 72 †
Born: 1632
Born: August 29
Died: 1704
Died: October 28
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Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.
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No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.
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Reason must be our last judge and guide in everything.
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If we will disbelieve everything, because we cannot certainly know all things, we shall do much what as wisely as he who would not use his legs, but sit still and perish, because he had no wings to fly.
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It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
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Men in great place are thrice servants servants of the sovereign state, servants of fame, and servants of business so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
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God, when he makes the prophet, does not unmake the man.
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The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.
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For a man's property is not at all secure, though there be good and equitable laws to set the bounds of it, between him and his fellow subjects, if he who commands those subjects, have power to take from any private man, what part he pleases of his property, and use and dispose of it as he thinks good.
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Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men's opinions to think themselves happy for if they judge by their own feeling, they cannot find it: but if they think with themselves what other men think of them, and that other men would fain be as they are, then they are happy as it were by report, when, perhaps, they find the contrary within.
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Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity.
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Our incomes are like our shoes if too small, they gall and pinch us but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.
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Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind.
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The care of souls cannot belong to the civil magistrate.
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Where there is no property there is no injustice.
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If any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority and without such consent of the people, he thereby invades the fundamental law of property, and subverts the end of government.
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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.
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Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
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