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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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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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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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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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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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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