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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant
Education is the transmission of civilization.
Will Durant
Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.
Will Durant
History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
Will Durant
I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun.
Will Durant
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.
Will Durant
It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
Will Durant
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Will Durant
Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
Will Durant
The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.
Will Durant
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Will Durant
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
Will Durant
When liberty destroys order, the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
Will Durant
To give life meaning, one must have a purpose larger than one's self.
Will Durant
Talk is cheap because the supply always exceeds the demand.
Will Durant
20. Abuse Returned
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Will Durant
When a simpleton abused him, Buddha listened in silence; but when the man finished, Buddha asked him, "Son, if a man declined to accept a present made to him, to whom would it belong?" The man answered, "To him who offered it." "My son," said Buddha, "I decline to accept your abuse, and request you to keep it for yourself."
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