The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.
- Will Durant
More Quotes By Will Durant
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
- India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe’s languages: she was the mother...
- Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it. Today is...
- A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes...
- To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
- Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
- The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for...
- The future never just happened. It was created.
- The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than...
- It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as...
- We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
- The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
- So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and...
- If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest...
- Love one another. My final lesson of history is the same as that of Jesus.
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