Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
WILL DURANTThe love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
More Will Durant Quotes
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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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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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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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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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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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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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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