The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
WILL DURANTAs soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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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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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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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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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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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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