Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
WILL DURANTThe ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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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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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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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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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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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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It may be true that you can’t fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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