We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
WILL DURANTThe family is the nucleus of civilization.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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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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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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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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