Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
WILL DURANTHistory is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
More Will Durant Quotes
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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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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If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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