Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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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.
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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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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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