Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
WILL DURANTThere have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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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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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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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