Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
WILL DURANTKnowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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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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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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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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