Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
WILL DURANTKnowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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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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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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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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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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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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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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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 vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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