John Locke

"Integrity gains strength by good report."

"Two great preventatives of evil are shame and fear. If you can touch either, you have some hold upon a man."

"The greater the personal freedom of the individual, the greater his personal responsibility."

"The first and firmest ground of public good is justice."

"He who would be thought wise among fools, to fools will always be a fool."

"Disputes that involve morals are not to be settled by appeals to authority."

"The safety of the commonwealth is the supreme law."

"Sensuality debases the mind and weakens the body."

"He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do very few things."

"The necessity of purging the mind of prejudice is the foundation of philosophy."

"Things are good or evil in proportion to the pleasure or pain they produce."

"He that hath ears to hear, let him hear what the voice of mankind is saying."

"Order in society depends on men understanding their natural duties."

"The public good is the object of all true patriots and statesmen."

"Where there is no property, there is no injustice."

"All government is founded in opinion."

"The law permits all that it does not forbid."

"Better a poor and honest man than a rich and dishonest one."

"The truth is what stands the test of experience."

"Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it."

"Beware of him who stirs up hatred against the innocent."

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."

"The two main sources of human error are the passions and ignorance."

"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours."

"The mind is, as it were, a blank slate upon which experience writes."

"He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions."

"Wisdom is not the purchase of a day, but comes to us by little and little."

"The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any of the sciences, but to unsettle their minds."

"A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world."

"Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others."