Civilization is not inherited; it has to be...... Quote by "Will Durant"

Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew…
— Will Durant

Education is the transmission of civilization.
— Will Durant

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

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In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
— Will Durant

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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
— Will Durant

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
— Will Durant

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