Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
WILL DURANTEvery vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
More Will Durant Quotes
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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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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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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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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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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