Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
WILL DURANTWoe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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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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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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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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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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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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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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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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