Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
WILL DURANTEvery form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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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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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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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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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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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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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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