The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
WILL DURANTCivilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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 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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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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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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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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It may be true that you can’t fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
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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.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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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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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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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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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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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