History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
WILL DURANTWoe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
More Will Durant Quotes
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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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 form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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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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