The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
WILL DURANTMoral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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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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One 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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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 political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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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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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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