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.
WILL DURANTEducation is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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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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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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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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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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