The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
WILL DURANTTired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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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 family is the nucleus of civilization.
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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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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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