Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
WILL DURANTMoral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
More Will Durant Quotes
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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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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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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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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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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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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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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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