Quotes By Will Durant
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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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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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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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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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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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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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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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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