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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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Will Durant
Age: 96 †
Born: 1885
Born: November 5
Died: 1981
Died: November 7
Historian
Philosopher
Writer
North Adams
Massachusetts
William James Will Durant
William James Durant
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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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Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?
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I have tried to be impartial, though I know that a man's past always colors his views, and that nothing else is so irritating as impartiality.
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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 give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.
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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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The crossroads of trade are the meeting place of ideas, the attrition ground of rival customs and beliefs diversities beget conflict, comparison, thought superstitions cancel one another, and reason begins.
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The Institutional Church (ecclesia) has killed only two kinds of people: Those who do not believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ, and those who do.
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How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
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Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic process
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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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Communism is the opiate of the people.
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As to harmonizing the theory of evolution with the Biblical account of creation, I do not believe it can be done, and I do not see why it should be. The story of Genesis is beautiful, and profoundly significant as symbolism: there is no good reason to torture it into conformity with modern theory.
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Science without philosophy, facts without perspective and valuation, cannot save us from havoc and despair. Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.
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by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.
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