The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
WILL DURANTSixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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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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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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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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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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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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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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