The family is the nucleus of civilization.
WILL DURANTAs soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
More Will Durant Quotes
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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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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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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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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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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