Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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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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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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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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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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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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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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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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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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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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