Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
WILL DURANTCivilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
More Will Durant Quotes
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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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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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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