The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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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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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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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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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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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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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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