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Will Durant45 quotes“The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.”
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Will DurantWill Durant As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
Will DurantWill Durant We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Will DurantWill Durant The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
Will DurantWill Durant The family is the nucleus of civilization.
Will DurantWill Durant Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
Will DurantWill Durant Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
Will DurantWill Durant Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
Will DurantWill Durant Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
Will DurantWill Durant There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
Will DurantWill Durant It may be true that you can’t fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
Will DurantWill Durant Education is the transmission of civilization.
Will DurantWill Durant Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
Will DurantWill Durant Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
Will DurantWill Durant Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
Will DurantWill Durant A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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