A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
WILL DURANTIn 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.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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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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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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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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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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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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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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