Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
WILL DURANTTo speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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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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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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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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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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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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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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