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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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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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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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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