As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
WILL DURANTNature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
More Will Durant Quotes
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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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 trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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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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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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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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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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