Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
WILL DURANTNothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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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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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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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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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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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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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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