Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
WILL DURANTMan became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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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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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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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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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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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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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 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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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