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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Quotes

Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will overbalance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.

Source:Book I. Of Innate Notions, Chapter III. No Innate practical Principles
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  • Book: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
  • Writer: John Locke
  • Genre: Philosophy
  • Published: 1689
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