The family is the nucleus of civilization.
WILL DURANTMost of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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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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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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