Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
WILL DURANTTo speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
More Will Durant Quotes
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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It 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.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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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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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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