We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
WILL DURANTCivilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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