There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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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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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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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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 political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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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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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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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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