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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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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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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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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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 trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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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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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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