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.
WILL DURANTScience gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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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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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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