No man in civil society can be exempted from the laws of it: for if any man may do what he thinks fit, and there be no appeal on earth, for redress or security against any harm he shall do; I ask, whether he be not perfectly still in the state of nature, and so can be no part or member of that civil society; unless any one will say, the state of nature and civil society are one and the same thing, which I have never yet found any one so great a patron of anarchy as to affirm. John Locke
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  1. We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.
  2. For where is the man that has incontestable evidence of the truth of all that he holds, or of the falsehood of all he condemns; or can say that he has examined to the bottom all his own, or other men's opinions? The necessity of...
  3. 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.
  4. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
  5. The only defense against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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