Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
WILL DURANTI am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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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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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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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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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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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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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 what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
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