There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
WILL DURANTIf man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
More Will Durant Quotes
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In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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It may be true that you can’t fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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