A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
WILL DURANTCivilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
More Will Durant Quotes
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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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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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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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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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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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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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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