Will Durant

Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

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 thinks laws in his own case superfluous.

Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game

To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.

Nothing is new except arrangement.

Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them all she flourished for a moment and then began to die.

In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.

So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.

In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.

Grow strong, my comrade … that you may stand Unshaken when I fall; that I may know The shattered fragments of my song will come At last to finer melody in you; That I may tell my heart that you begin Where passing I leave off, and fathom more.