Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
WILL DURANTNothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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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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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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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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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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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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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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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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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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