We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
WILL DURANTMoral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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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 say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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 form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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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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