There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
WILL DURANTMost of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
More Will Durant Quotes
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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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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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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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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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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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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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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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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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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