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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
Guessing
Mostly
Prejudice
Rest
History

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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
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To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.
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If I were rich I would have many books, and I would pamper myself with bindings bright to the eye and soft to the touch, paper generously opaque, and type such as men designed when printing was very young. I would dress my gods in leather and gold, and burn candles of worship before them at night, and string their names like beads on a string.
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Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt -- particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms.
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Liberty is a product of order.
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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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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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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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Grow strong, my comrade … that you may stand Unshaken when I fall that I may know The shattered fragments of my song will come At last to finer melody in you That I may tell my heart that you begin Where passing I leave off, and fathom more.
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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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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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Often your face is your autobiography
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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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Never mind your happiness do your duty.
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We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.
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A civilization is born Stoic and dies Epicurean.
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The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.
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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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