To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
WILL DURANTOur knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
More Will Durant Quotes
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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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 are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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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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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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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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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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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