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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards. ↗

— John Locke

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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. ↗

— John Locke

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

— John Locke

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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 law, where there is no law, there is no freedom. ↗

— John Locke

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All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it. ↗

— John Locke

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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment. ↗

— John Locke

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

— John Locke

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

— John Locke

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To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes. ↗

— John Locke

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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. ↗

— John Locke

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