To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
WILL DURANTEvery science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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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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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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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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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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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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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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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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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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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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