Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
WILL DURANTIt 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.
More Will Durant Quotes
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The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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