Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
WILL DURANTI am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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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 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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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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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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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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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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