Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
WILL DURANTThe 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.
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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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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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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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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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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