The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
WILL DURANTEvery form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
More Will Durant Quotes
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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It 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.
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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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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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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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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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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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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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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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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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