Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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.
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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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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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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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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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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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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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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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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 trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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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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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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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