Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
WILL DURANTCivilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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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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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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