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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.

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There cannot any one moral Rule be propos'd, whereof a Man may not justly demand a Reason.

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)

Freedom of Nature is, to be under no other restraint but the Law of Nature.

Two Treatises of Government (1689)

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

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression.

A Letter Concerning Toleration (1689)

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