Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
WILL DURANTTo speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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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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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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