Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
WILL DURANTMan became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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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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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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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