The family is the nucleus of civilization.
WILL DURANTThe family is the nucleus of civilization.
WILL DURANTEducation is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
WILL DURANTWe are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
WILL DURANTKnowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
WILL DURANTCivilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
WILL DURANTMan became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
WILL DURANTMost of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
WILL DURANTThere have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
WILL DURANTTo say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
WILL DURANTTo speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
WILL DURANTWoe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
WILL DURANTBankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
WILL DURANTThe love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
WILL DURANTThe trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
WILL DURANTOur knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
WILL DURANTAs soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
WILL DURANT