To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
WILL DURANTWe are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
More Will Durant Quotes
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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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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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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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 trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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It may be true that you can’t fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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