Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
WILL DURANTCivilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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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 speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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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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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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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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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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