Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
WILL DURANTWe are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
More Will Durant Quotes
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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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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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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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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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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