Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
WILL DURANTCivilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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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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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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 trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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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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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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