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.
WILL DURANTA statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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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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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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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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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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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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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 speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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