We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
WILL DURANTTired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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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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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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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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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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