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 DURANTThe 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.
More Will Durant Quotes
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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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 what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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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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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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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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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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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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