Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
WILL DURANTHistory is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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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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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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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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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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