Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
WILL DURANTNothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
More Will Durant Quotes
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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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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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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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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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
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