Will Durant Quotes
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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.
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Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.
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It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.
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Wherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done.
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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
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We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.
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The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.
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Liberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.
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Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.
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The Institutional Church (ecclesia) has killed only two kinds of people: Those who do not believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ, and those who do.