To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
WILL DURANTWe are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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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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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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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 are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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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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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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