Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
WILL DURANTOur knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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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