To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
WILL DURANTNothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
More Will Durant Quotes
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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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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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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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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