A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
WILL DURANTMost of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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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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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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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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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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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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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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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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