To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
WILL DURANTWoe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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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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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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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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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 family is the nucleus of civilization.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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 exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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