As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
WILL DURANTTruth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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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 have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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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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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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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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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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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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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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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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