In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich; then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty. Will Durant
I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. <span style="margin:15px;...
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Neil Gaiman
Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens
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Tony Deliso
Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling
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Tony Deliso
Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.
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Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the...
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Alexandre Dumas
More Quotes By Will Durant
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather...
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Civilization is not inherited it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew…
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.