We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
From Will Durant
The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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 of order.
The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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