The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
WILL DURANT
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.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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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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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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