Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
WILL DURANTOur knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
More Will Durant Quotes
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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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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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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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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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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