Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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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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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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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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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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