We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
WILL DURANTTruth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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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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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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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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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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