I have spent more than half a lifetime t... by John Locke | We Heart Quotes

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

- John Locke

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What worries you, masters you.

- John Locke

Right Man

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

- John Locke

Actions

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

- John Locke

Men

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.

- John Locke

Rudeness

There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.

- John Locke

It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of truth.

- John Locke

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