To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
WILL DURANTEvery form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
More Will Durant Quotes
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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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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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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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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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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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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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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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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