Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
WILL DURANTA statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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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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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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