Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
WILL DURANTOne of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
More Will Durant Quotes
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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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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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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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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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 exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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