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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

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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
License
Dictatorship
Near
Becomes
Liberty

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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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The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.
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To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.
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Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.
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The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.
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If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Love one another. My final lesson of history is the same as that of Jesus. You may think that's a lot of lollipop but just try it. Love is the most practical thing in the world. If you take an attitude of love toward everybody you meet, you'll eventually get along.
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Civilization is not inherited it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again.
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Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.
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It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.
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War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.
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Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them all she flourished for a moment and then began to die.
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Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
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The laws that Charondas gave to Catana,... A man might divorce his wife, or a wife her husband, said Charondas, but then he or she must not marry anyone younger than the divorced mate.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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