A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
WILL DURANTWe are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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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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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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