To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
WILL DURANTEvery vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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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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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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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 trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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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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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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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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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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