A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
WILL DURANTTo speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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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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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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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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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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