The family is the nucleus of civilization.
WILL DURANTTo speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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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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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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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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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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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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