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.
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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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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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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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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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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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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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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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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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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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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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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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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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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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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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