Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
WILL DURANTOne of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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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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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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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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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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