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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

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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
Statesman
Statesmen
Afford
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Moralist

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I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest urchin in the streets.
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Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals
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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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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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Science without philosophy, facts without perspective and valuation, cannot save us from havoc and despair. Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.
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As knowledge grew, fear decreased men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.
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