The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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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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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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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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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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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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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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