Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
WILL DURANTWe are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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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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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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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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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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