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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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Will Durant
Age: 96 †
Born: 1885
Born: November 5
Died: 1981
Died: November 7
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North Adams
Massachusetts
William James Will Durant
William James Durant
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Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Man is an emotional animal, occasionally rational and through his feelings he can be deceived to his heart's content.
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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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A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side.
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History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.
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Even when repressed, inequality grows only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way.
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Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?
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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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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals
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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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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
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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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Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.
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Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages.
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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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In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.
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The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive to stir individuals and groups to productivity. Substitutes like slavery, police supervision, or ideological enthusiasm prove too unproductive, too expensive, or too transient.
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