Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
WILL DURANTThe trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
More Will Durant Quotes
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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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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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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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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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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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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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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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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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