There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
WILL DURANTIf 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.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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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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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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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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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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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