A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
WILL DURANTAs soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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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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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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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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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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