Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
WILL DURANTThe love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
More Will Durant Quotes
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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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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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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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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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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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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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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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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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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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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