The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
WILL DURANTThere have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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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 most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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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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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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