History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
WILL DURANTThere is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
More Will Durant Quotes
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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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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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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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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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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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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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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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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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