Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
WILL DURANTTo speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Education is the transmission 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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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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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 exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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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