The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
WILL DURANTOur knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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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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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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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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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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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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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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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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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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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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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