Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
WILL DURANTWhen liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
More Will Durant Quotes
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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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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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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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