To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
WILL DURANTTo say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
More Will Durant Quotes
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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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 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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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; 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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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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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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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