Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
WILL DURANTMoral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
More Will Durant Quotes
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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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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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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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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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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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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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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