Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
WILL DURANTA statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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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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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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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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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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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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