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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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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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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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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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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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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