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I pretend not to teach, but to inquire.

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John Locke
Age: 72 †
Born: 1632
Born: August 29
Died: 1704
Died: October 28
Philosopher
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Politician
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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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I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it.
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Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind.
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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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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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Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule.
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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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