Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
WILL DURANTThere have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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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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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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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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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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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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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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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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