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Man Quotes by Will Durant
- Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard
- Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability…
- If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any…
- No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
- Civilization is social order promoting cultural creation. Four elements constitute it: economic provision, political organization, moral tradition, and the pursuit of knowledge and the arts.…
- The laws that Charondas gave to Catana,... A man might divorce his wife, or a wife her husband, said Charondas, but then he or she…
- The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
- 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…
- The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
- Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
- So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.
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