We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
WILL DURANTThere have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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In 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.
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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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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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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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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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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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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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