One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
WILL DURANTThe trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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