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Great Quotes by Will Durant
- We have conferred a mystic popularity upon officials whose only virtue is their timidity; while our scorn of rebels and reformers is so great that…
- A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people,…
- 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…
- All that is good in our history is gathered in libraries. At this moment, Plato is down there at the library waiting for us. So…
- Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them all she flourished…
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- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen
- My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
- Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied… — Karen Armstrong
- Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great. — Lance Armstrong
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong