The family is the nucleus of civilization.
WILL DURANTWhen liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
More Will Durant Quotes
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If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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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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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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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 science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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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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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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