If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
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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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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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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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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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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