The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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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 trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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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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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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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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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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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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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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