Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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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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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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