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One Quotes by Will Durant
- That a few simple men should in one generation have invented so powerful and appealing a personality, so lofty ethic, and so inspiring a vision…
- The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be…
- A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side.
- To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.
- Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails…
- It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.
- Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves; better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe…
- Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that…
- The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.
- I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith,…
- Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
- Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization…
- One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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