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“L'État, selon mes idées, est une société d'hommes instituée dans la seule vue de l'établissement, de la conservation et de l'avancement de leurs intérêts civils. J'appelle intérêts civils, la vie, la liberté, la santé du corps; la possession des biens extérieurs, tels que sont l'argent, les terres, les maisons, les meubles, et autres choses de cette nature.”

John Locke livre Lettre sur la tolérance

Lettre sur la tolérance

“il n’y a rien dans monde qui puisse entrer en comparaison avec l’éternité.”

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Lettre sur la tolérance - Précédé de Essai sur la tolérance (1667) et de Sur la différence entre pouvoir ecclésiastique et pouvoir civil

“La plus grande et la principale fin que se proposent les hommes, lorsqu'ils s'unissent en communauté, c'est de conserver leurs propriétés.”

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John Locke: Citations en anglais

“A young man before he leaves the shelter of his father's house, and the guard of a tutor, should be fortify'd with resolution, and made acquainted with men, to secure his virtues, lest he should be led into some ruinous course, or fatal precipice, before he is sufficiently acquainted with the dangers of conversation, and his steadiness enough not to yield to every temptation.”

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John Locke livre Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Sec. 70
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“For wherever violence is used, and injury done, though by hands appointed to administer Justice, it is still violence and injury, however colour'd with the Name, Pretences, or Forms of Law, the end whereof being to protect and redress the innocent, by an unbiassed application of it, to all who are under it; wherever that is not bona fide done, War is made upon the Sufferers, who having no appeal on Earth to right them, they are left to the only remedy in such Cases, an appeal to Heaven.”

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John Locke livre Two Treatises of Government

Two Treatises of Government. The Second Treatise. Chapter 3: The State of War, §20 p. 281 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=gRNDLAK4kPUC&pg=PA281

“Covetousness, and the desire of having in our possession, and under our dominion, more than we have need of, being the root of all evil, should be early and carefully weeded out, and the contrary quality of a readiness to impart to others, implanted. This should be encourag'd by great commendation and credit, and constantly taking care that he loses nothing by his liberality.”

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John Locke livre Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Sec. 110
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“Let me give two cautions. 1) The one is, that you keep them to the practice of what you would have grow into a habit with them, by kind words, and gentle admonitions, rather as minding them of what they forget, than by harsh rebukes and chiding, as if they were wilfully guilty. 2) Another thing you are to take care of, is, not to endeavour to settle too many habits at once, lest by variety you confound them, and so perfect none. When constant custom has made any one thing easy and natural to 'em, and they practice it without reflection, you may then go on to another.”

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John Locke livre Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Sec. 66
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“Let him sensibly perceive, that the kindness he shews to others, is no ill husbandry for himself; but that it brings a return in kindness both from those that receive it, and those who look on. Make this a contest among children, who shall out-do one another in this way: and by this means, by a constant practise, children having made it easy to themselves to part with what they have, good nature may be settled in them into a habit, and they may take pleasure, and pique themselves in being kind, liberal and civil, to others.”

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John Locke livre Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Sec. 110
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“To teach him betimes to love and be good-natur'd to others, is to lay early the true foundation of an honest man; all injustice generally springing from too great love of ourselves and too little of others.”

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John Locke livre Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Sec. 139
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“Where danger shews it self, apprehension cannot, without stupidity, be wanting; where danger is, sense of danger should be; and so much fear as should keep us awake, and excite our attention, industry, and vigour; but not to disturb the calm use of our reason, nor hinder the execution of what that dictates.”

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John Locke livre Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Sec. 115
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“Mark what 'tis his mind aims at in the question, and not what words he expresses it in: and when you have informed and satisfied him in that, you shall see how his thoughts will enlarge themselves, and how by fit answers he may be led on farther than perhaps you could have imagine. For knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.”

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John Locke livre Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Sec. 118
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“How much education may reconcile young people to pain and sufference, the examples of Sparta do sufficiently shew; and they who have once brought themselves not to think bodily pain the greatest of evils, or that which they ought to stand most in fear of, have made no small advance toward virtue.”

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John Locke livre Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Sec. 115
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“The beauty or uncomeliness of many things, in good and ill breeding, will be better learnt, and make deeper impressions on them, in the examples of others, than from any rules or instructions can be given about them.”

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John Locke livre Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Sec. 82
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“The only thing we are naturally afraid of is pain, or loss of pleasure. And because these are not annexed to any shape, colour, or size of visible objects, we are frighted of none of them, till either we have felt pain from them, or have notions put into us that they will do us harm.”

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John Locke livre Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Sec. 115
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“Encourage therefore his inquisitiveness all you can, by satisfying his demands, and informing his judgement, as far as it is capable. When his reasons are any way tolerable, let him find the credit and commendation of it, without being laugh'd at for his mistake be gently put into the right; and if he shew a forwardness to be reasoning about things that come in his way, take care, as much as you can, that no body check this inclination in him, or mislead it by captious or fallacious ways of talking with him. For when all is done, this is the highest and most important faculty of our minds, deserves the greatest care and attention in cultivating it: the right improvement, and exercise of our reason being the highest perfection that a man can attain to in his life.”

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John Locke livre Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Sec. 122
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“The boundaries of the species, whereby men sort them, are made by men.”

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John Locke livre An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Book III, Ch. 6, sec. 37
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)

“He [Jesus] not only forbids actual uncleanness, but all irregular desires, upon pain of hell-fire; causeless divorces; swearing in conversation, as well as forswearing in judgment; revenge; retaliation; ostentation of charity, of devotion, and of fasting; repetitions in prayer, covetousness, worldly care, censoriousness: and on the other side commands loving our enemies, doing good to those that hate us, blessing those that curse us, praying for those that despitefully use us; patience and meekness under injuries, forgiveness, liberality, compassion: and closes all; his particular injunctions, with this general golden rule, Matt. VII. 12, "All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do you even so to them, for this is the law and the prophets." And to show how much He is in earnest, and expects obedience to these laws, He tells them, Luke VI. 35, That if they obey, " great shall be their reward."”

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§ 116
The Reasonableness of Christianity (1695)

“Whoever has used what means he is capable of, for the informing of himself, with a readiness to believe and obey what shall be taught and prescribed by Jesus, his Lord and King, is a true and faithful subject of Christ's kingdom; and cannot be thought to fail in any thing necessary to salvation.”

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§ 233
The Reasonableness of Christianity (1695)

“Enjoin him to play so many hours every day, and look that he do it; and you shall see he will quickly be sick of it; and willing to leave it. By this means making the recreations you dislike a business to him, he will of himself with delight betake himself to those things you would have him do, especially if they be proposed as rewards for having performed the task in that play which is commanded of him.”

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John Locke livre Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Sec. 129
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“That which parents should take care of… is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.”

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John Locke livre Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Sec. 107
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison’d the fountain.”

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John Locke livre Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Sec. 35
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler.”

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John Locke livre Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Sec. 116
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“The law of faith, being a covenant of free grace, God alone can appoint what shall be necessarily believed by everyone whom He will justify. What is the faith which He will accept and account for righteousness, depends wholly on his good pleasure. For it is of grace, and not of right, that this faith is accepted. And therefore He alone can set the measures of it: and what he has so appointed and declared is alone necessary. No-body can add to these fundamental articles of faith; nor make any other necessary, but what God himself hath made, and declared to be so. And what these are which God requires of those who will enter into, and receive the benefits of the new covenant, has already been shown. An explicit belief of these is absolutely required of all those to whom the gospel of Jesus Christ is preached, and salvation through his name proposed.”

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§ 156
The Reasonableness of Christianity (1695)

“If you punish him for what he sees you practise yourself, he… will be apt to interpret it the peevishness and arbitrary imperiousness of a father, who, without any ground for it, would deny his son the liberty and pleasure he takes himself.”

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John Locke livre Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Sec. 71
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided.”

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John Locke livre Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Sec. 54
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

“I doubt not, but from self-evident Propositions, by necessary Consequences, as incontestable as those in Mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out.”

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John Locke livre An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Book IV, Ch. 3, sec. 18
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)

“Popery so threatens and so nearly surrounds us…every sober man would think it seasonable at this time that all dissenting Protestants should be brought to a good understanding and compliance one with another…I think all Protestants ought now by all ways to be stirred up against them [Catholics] as People that have declared themselves ready by blood, violence, and destruction to ruine our Religion and Government…[they] are nothing but either Enemys in our bowells or spies among us, whilst their General commanders whom they blindly obey declare warr, and an unalterable designe to destroy us.”

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'Critical Notes Upon Edward Stillingfleet's Mischief and Unreasonableness of Separation' (c. May 1681), quoted in John Marshall, John Locke: Resistance, Religion and Responsibility (Cambridge University Press, 1994), p. 110