John Locke Quotes About Temptation

Quotes about: Temptation

• The discipline of desire is the background of character.

  John Locke

  Philosophical, Character, Discipline

• All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

  John Locke

  War, Passion, Men

  An Essay Concerning Human Understanding bk. 4, ch. 20, sec. 17 (1690)

• And because it may be too great a temptation to human frailty, apt to grasp at power, for the same persons, who have the power of making laws, to have also in their hands the power to execute them, whereby they may exempt themselves from obedience to the laws they make, and suit the law, both in its making, and execution, to their own private advantage.

  John Locke

  Hands, Law, Temptation

  John Locke (1821). “Two treatises of government”, p.313

• 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.

  John Locke

  Father, Men, Yield

  John Locke, George Berkeley (2010). “Locke, Berkely and Hume”, p.54, Cosimo, Inc.

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