Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
WILL DURANTTo speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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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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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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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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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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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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