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When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Liberty is a product of order.
Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
Nothing is new except arrangement.
Often your face is your autobiography
Communism is the opiate of the people.
Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
The family is the nucleus of civilization.
A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.
No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
The finger that turns the dial rules the air.
The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.
Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages.
Education is the transmission of civilization.
Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.
Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.
Education is the transformation of civilisation
The future never just happened. It was created.
As long as there is poverty there will be gods.
A civilization is born Stoic and dies Epicurean.
Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.
History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.
When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it.
Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free.
Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.
Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals
Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.
There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.
Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.
In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.
To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.
Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?
Never put a man in the wrong. He will hold it against you forever.
Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.
The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.
Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
