"A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within."

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Source : Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1944). “The Story of Civilization: Caesar and Christ, a history of Roman civilization and of Christianity from their beginnings to A.D. 325”

Ariel Durant

#Women Quotes #Memorable Quotes #Civilization Quotes

“Youth is slipping, dripping, pearl on pearl, away.”
“There are many ways of performing the operations successfully. I can claim, however, to be in a position to explain how not to putt. I think I know as well as anybody how not to do it.”

Source : Harry Vardon (1989). “Vardon On Golf”, p.106, BookBaby
“Life begins at eighty.”
“The prompter the refusal, the less the disappointment.”
“In vain do we seek tranquility in the desert; temptations are always with us; our passions, represented by the demons, never let us alone: those monsters created by the heart, those illusions produced by the mind, those vain specters that are our errors and our lies always appear before us to seduce us; they attack us even in our fasting or our mortifications, in other words, in our very strength.”
“The Cicada sing an endless song in the long grass, smells run along the earth and falling stars run over the sky, like tears over a cheek. You are the privileged person to whom everything is taken. The Kings of Tarshish shall bring gifts.”
“When you find an idea that you just can't stop thinking about, that's probably a good one to pursue.”
“If Truth is taken away from us, then Right and Wrong are taken from us as well. If we don't know Right and Wrong, then we can't, we won't control ourselves, but will look to someone else to bring order through brute force and raw power. We will be controlled by a tyrant, and we will no longer be free...”

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