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Who lies for you will lie against you.

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John Locke
Age: 72 †
Born: 1632
Born: August 29
Died: 1704
Died: October 28
Philosopher
Physician
Politician
Writer
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Somerset
Lying
Truth
Dishonesty
Lied
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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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When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.
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Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind.
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There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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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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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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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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The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.
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I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it.
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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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All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
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Children generally hate to be idle all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them
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The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds as may best make them - capable of any, when they shall apply themselves to it.
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Where there is no law there is no freedom.
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[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.
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Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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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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He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.
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