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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

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Will Durant
Age: 96 †
Born: 1885
Born: November 5
Died: 1981
Died: November 7
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North Adams
Massachusetts
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.
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Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.
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So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.
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Human progress having reached a high level through respect for the liberty and dignity of men, it has become desirable to re-affirm these evident truths
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old.
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A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.
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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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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry in its decadence, philosophy and logic.
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Paul created a theology of which none but the vaguest warrants can be found in the words of Christ.
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Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, the [bankers] know that history is inflationary.
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There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.
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India was the motherland of our race and Samskrit the mother of Europe 's languages...Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.
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As knowledge grew, fear decreased men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.
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Science tells us how to heal and how to kill it reduces our death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war but only wisdom - desire coordinated in the light of all experience - can tell us when to heal and when to kill.
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Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.
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The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.
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