Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
WILL DURANTOne of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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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 family is the nucleus of civilization.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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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 exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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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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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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