The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
WILL DURANTTo speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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The family is the nucleus 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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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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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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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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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