Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
WILL DURANTA statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
More Will Durant Quotes
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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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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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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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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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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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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