Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
WILL DURANTWe are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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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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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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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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