Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
WILL DURANTTired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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