To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
WILL DURANTThe family is the nucleus of civilization.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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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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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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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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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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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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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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