We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
WILL DURANTTo say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
More Will Durant Quotes
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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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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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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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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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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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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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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