Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
WILL DURANTTo say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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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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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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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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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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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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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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