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John Locke

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Section S2

Section 603 of 1,114

Canonical reference B2.C33.S2

English

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This proceeds not wholly from self-love, though that has often a great hand in it. Men of fair minds, and not given up to the overweening of self-flattery, are frequently guilty of it; and in many cases one with amazement hears the arguings, and is astonished at the obstinacy of a worthy man, who yields not to the evidence of reason, though laid before him as clear as daylight.

French

Pierre Coste · Pierre Mortier, Amsterdam, 1735, third edition

Cela ne vient pas abſolument de l’Amour propre, quoi que cette paſſion aît ſouvent beaucoup de part. On voit tous les jours des gens coupables de ce défaut qui ont le cœur bien fait, & ne ſont point ſottement entêtez de leur propre mérite. Et ſouvent une perſonne écoute avec ſurpriſe les raiſonnemens d’un habile homme dont il admire l’opiniâtreté, pendant que lui-même réſiſte à des raiſons de la dernière évidence qu’on lui propoſe fort diſtinctement.

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