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John Locke
Age: 72 †
Born: 1632
Born: August 29
Died: 1704
Died: October 28
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To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
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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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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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Who hath a prospect of the different state of perfect happiness or misery that attends all men after this life, depending on their behavior, the measures of good and evil that govern his choice are mightily changed.
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The greatest part of mankind ... are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.
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Justice and truth are the common ties of society
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Struggle is nature's way of strengthening it
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[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
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With books we stand on the shoulders of giants.
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Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
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How then shall they have the play-games you allow them, if none must be bought for them? I answer, they should make them themselves, or at least endeavour it, and set themselves about it. ...And if you help them where they are at a stand, it will more endear you to them than any chargeable toys that you shall buy for them.
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I pretend not to teach, but to inquire.
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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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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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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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Children have as much mind to show that they are free, that their own good actions come from themselves, that they are absolute and independent, as any of the proudest of you grown men, think of them as you please.
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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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When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.
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There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.
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