Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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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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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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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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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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