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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
Will Durant
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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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard
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A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.
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The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
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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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When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.
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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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The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.
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India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings.
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Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.
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History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.
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Never mind your happiness do your duty.
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Cultivate your garden. Do not depend upon teachers to educate you... follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony.
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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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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
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