Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
WILL DURANTMoral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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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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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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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