The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
WILL DURANTThe family is the nucleus of civilization.
More Will Durant Quotes
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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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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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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It may be true that you can’t fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
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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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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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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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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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