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John Locke Quotes

«Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.»
Author: John Locke (Philosopher) | Keywords: fortitude
«To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.»
Author: John Locke (Philosopher) | Keywords: plot, principal
«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»
«To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.»
Author: John Locke (Philosopher) | Keywords: testament
«Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule.»
Author: John Locke (Philosopher) | Keywords: conquers, reflecting
«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.»
«If punishment makes not the will supple it hardens the offender»
«All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it»
Author: John Locke (Philosopher) | Keywords: liable
«The care of souls cannot belong to the civil magistrate»
Author: John Locke (Philosopher) | Keywords: magistrate
«Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed»
Author: John Locke (Philosopher) | About: Habit | Keywords: consulted, fairly, obeyed

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