Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
WILL DURANTMoral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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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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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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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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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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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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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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