Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
WILL DURANTTo say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
More Will Durant Quotes
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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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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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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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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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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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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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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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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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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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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