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 DURANTThere have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
More Will Durant Quotes
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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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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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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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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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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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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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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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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