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Will Durant Quotes

American - Historian | November 5, 1885 - November 7, 1981

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Environmental Moral Adjust Themselves

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

Past War Free Years Only Been

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.

Freedom Civilization Order Activity

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

Government Principle Excess Basic

I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.

I Am Flame Income Where Against Am

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

Truth Broken Always Minority Begins

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

Become Virtue Hatred Vice May Just

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