Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
WILL DURANTNothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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