To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
WILL DURANTBankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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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In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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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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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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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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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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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