Will Durant

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

Will Durant

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

Will Durant

Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.

Will Durant

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Will Durant

A book is like a quarrel. One word leads to another, and may erupt in blood or print, irrevocably.

Will Durant

A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side.

Will Durant

A civilization is born Stoic and dies Epicurean.

Will Durant

A disintegrating individualism had weakened the Athenian character, and left the city a prey at last to the sternly-nurtured Spartans.

Will Durant

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Will Durant

All science is a charted ignorance and belongs to Maya.

Will Durant