As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
WILL DURANTTo speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
More Will Durant Quotes
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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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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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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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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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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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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