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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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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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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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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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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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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