Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
WILL DURANTEducation is the transmission of civilization.
More Will Durant Quotes
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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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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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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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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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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