The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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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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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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