The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
WILL DURANTNature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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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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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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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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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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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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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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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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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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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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