The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
WILL DURANTCivilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
More Will Durant Quotes
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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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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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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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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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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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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