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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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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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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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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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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