One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
WILL DURANTThe trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
More Will Durant Quotes
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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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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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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