Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
WILL DURANTMoral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
More Will Durant Quotes
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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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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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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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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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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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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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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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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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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