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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

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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
Education
Knowledge
Eye
Desire
Become
Soul
Pilot
Pilots

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Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.
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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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For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.
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Civilizations come and go they conquer the earth and crumble into dust but faith survives every desolation.
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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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The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.
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Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals
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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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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome.
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To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.
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Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.
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Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.
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Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.
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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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We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive redistribution.
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Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.
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