The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
WILL DURANTCivilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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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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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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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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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; 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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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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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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