"To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy."
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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."
Will Durant"Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal."
Will Durant"Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance."
Will Durant"Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul."
Will Durant"Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom."
Will Durant"The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife."
Will Durant"Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory."
Will Durant"Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years."
Will Durant"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
Will Durant"Education is the transmission of civilization."
Will Durant"Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
Will Durant"Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions."
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