A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
WILL DURANTNature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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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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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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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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