The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
WILL DURANTBankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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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 is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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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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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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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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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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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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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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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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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