A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
WILL DURANTEvery form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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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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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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