Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
WILL DURANTThe political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
More Will Durant Quotes
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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