Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
WILL DURANTThere have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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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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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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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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