Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
WILL DURANTTired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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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 family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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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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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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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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 trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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