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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
Pilot
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Desire
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Soul

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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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Paul created a theology of which none but the vaguest warrants can be found in the words of Christ.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.
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Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic, superstition, and sorcery. Perhaps they will remain when the works of our reason have passed away.
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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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History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.
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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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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.
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The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to 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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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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Liberty is a product of order.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves let us be above such transparent egotism. If you can't say good and encouraging things, say nothing. Nothing is often a good thing to do, and always a clever thing to say.
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Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, the [bankers] know that history is inflationary.
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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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The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
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If you wish to be loved, be modest if you wish to be admired, be proud if you wish both, combine external modesty with internal pride.
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