A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
WILL DURANTThe family is the nucleus of civilization.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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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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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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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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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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