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.
WILL DURANTIt 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.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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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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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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