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.
WILL DURANTMost of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
More Will Durant Quotes
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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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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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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