To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
WILL DURANTIf 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.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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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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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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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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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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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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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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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