The family is the nucleus of civilization.
WILL DURANTHistory is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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It may be true that you can’t fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
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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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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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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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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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