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.
WILL DURANTA statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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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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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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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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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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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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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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