Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
WILL DURANTEvery form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
More Will Durant Quotes
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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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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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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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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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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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