Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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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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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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own 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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