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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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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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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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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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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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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