When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
WILL DURANTInquiry is fatal to certainty.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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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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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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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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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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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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