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 DURANTMost of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own 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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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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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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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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