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.
WILL DURANTWe are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
More Will Durant Quotes
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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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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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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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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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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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 family is the nucleus 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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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