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.
WILL DURANTWe are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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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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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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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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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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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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