American - Historian | November 5, 1885 - November 7, 1981
There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
Will Durant
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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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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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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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