Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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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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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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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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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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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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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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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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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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