A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
WILL DURANTEducation is the transmission of civilization.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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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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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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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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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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