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.
WILL DURANTTruth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
More Will Durant Quotes
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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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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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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