History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.

- Will Durant

A civilization is born Stoic and dies Epicurean.

- Will Durant

There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.

- Will Durant

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.

- Will Durant

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

- Will Durant

Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day

- Will Durant

Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation.

- Will Durant

A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her peop…

- Will Durant

Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals

- Will Durant