Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
WILL DURANTTo speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
More Will Durant Quotes
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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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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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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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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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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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.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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