Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
WILL DURANTNothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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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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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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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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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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