Will Durant

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime. ↗

— Will Durant

#become #becomes #every #hatred #just

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory. ↗

— Will Durant

#less #memory #mothers #penetrates #reasoning

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom. ↗

— Will Durant

#gives #knowledge #only #philosophy #science

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years. ↗

— Will Durant

#last #little #most #much #six

Education is the transmission of civilization. ↗

— Will Durant

#civilization #transmission

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. ↗

— Will Durant

#always #clever #dishonest #good #good thing

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority. ↗

— Will Durant

#against #because #divided #machine #majority

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle. ↗

— Will Durant

#basic principle #every #excess #form #government

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. ↗

— Will Durant

#fears #hopes #minds #most #people

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near. ↗

— Will Durant

#dictatorship #liberty #license #near