Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
WILL DURANTWoe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
More Will Durant Quotes
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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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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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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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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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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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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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If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
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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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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