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History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.

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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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To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.
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The crossroads of trade are the meeting place of ideas, the attrition ground of rival customs and beliefs diversities beget conflict, comparison, thought superstitions cancel one another, and reason begins.
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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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When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
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The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.
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Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.
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Time sanctifies everything even the most arrant theft in the hands of the robber's grandchildren becomes sacred and inviolable property.
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If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?
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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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There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.
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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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Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages.
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In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.
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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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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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If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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