Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
WILL DURANTEvery vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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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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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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