One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
WILL DURANTA statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
More Will Durant Quotes
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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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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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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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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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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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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