One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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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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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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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 living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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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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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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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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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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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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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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