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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
Historian
Philosopher
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North Adams
Massachusetts
William James Will Durant
William James Durant
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Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.
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Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change.
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[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.
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Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.
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It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.
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Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all.
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The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry in its decadence, philosophy and logic.
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Liberty is a luxury of security the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.
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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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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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Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.
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Time sanctifies everything even the most arrant theft in the hands of the robber's grandchildren becomes sacred and inviolable property.
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