Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
WILL DURANTMan became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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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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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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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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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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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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