Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
WILL DURANTCivilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
More Will Durant Quotes
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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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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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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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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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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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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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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