Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
WILL DURANTEvery form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
More Will Durant Quotes
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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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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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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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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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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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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