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The great question which in all ages has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of those mischiefs which have ruined cities,...

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The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of laws, wh...

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If all political power be derived only from Adam, and be to descend only to his successive heirs, by the ordinance of God and divine instituti...

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As usurpation is the exercise of power, which another hath a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which no body can hav...

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A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish ...

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We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

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It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.

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Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

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I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.

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Where there is no property there is no injustice.

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Nihil est in intellectu quod non fuit prius in sensu : Nothing is in the understanding, which was not first perceived by some of the senses.

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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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To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

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We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.

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Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule.

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Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.

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Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.

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A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.

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This tendency [to cruelty] should be watched in them [children], and if they incline to any such cruelty, they should be taught the contrary usage.  For the custom of tormenting and killing other animals will, by degrees, harden their hearts even towards men....  And they, who delight in the suffering and destruction of inferior creatures, will not be apt to be very compassionate or benign to those of their own kind.  Children should from the beginning be brought up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting living beings....  And indeed, I think people from their cradles should be tender to all sensible creatures....  All the entertainment and talk of History is of nothing but fighting and killing; and the honour and renown that is bestowed on conquerors, who, for the most part, are but the great butchers of mankind, further mislead youth.

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Had the King of Spain employed the hands of his people, and his Spanish iron so, he had brought to light but little of that treasure that lay so long hid in the dark entrails of America.

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The great men among the ancients understood very well how to reconcile manual labour with affairs of state, and thought it no lessening to their dignity to make the one the recreation to the other. That indeed which seems most generally to have employed and diverted their spare hours, was agriculture. Gideon among the Jews was taken from threshing, as well as Cincinnatus amongst the Romans from the plough, to command the armies of their countries...and, as I remember, Cyrus thought gardening so little beneath the dignity and grandeur of a throne, that he showed Xenophon a large field of fruit trees all of his own planting . . . Delving, planting, inoculating, or any the like profitable employments would be no less a diversion than any of the idle sports in fashion, if men could be brought to delight in them.

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We are a kind of Chameleons, taking our hue - the hue of our moral character, from those who are about us.

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There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in a road, according to the notions they have borrowed and the prejudices of their education.

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There being nothing more evident than that creatures of the same species should be equal amongst one another without subordination or subjection

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The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.

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The action of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

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The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

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Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

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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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