Quote by Will Durant
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thin

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. – Will Durant

Other quotes by Will Durant

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal. – Will Durant

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Nature
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When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty. – Will Durant

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Order
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. – Will Durant

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Change
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No other discipline has its portals so wide open to the general public as history. – Johan Huizinga, Men and Ideas

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In a certain sense all men are historians. – Thomas Carlyle, Essays: On History

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Historian: an unsuccessful novelist. – H.L. Mencken

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Princes should have more to fear from historians than have ugly women from great painters. – Antonio Pérez, Aforismos

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O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles. – Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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