The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
WILL DURANTCivilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
More Will Durant Quotes
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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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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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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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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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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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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