Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
WILL DURANTCivilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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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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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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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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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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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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