One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
WILL DURANTCivilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
More Will Durant Quotes
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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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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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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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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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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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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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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