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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.

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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
Men
Recognized
Subject
Atheism
Became
Subjects
Liberty
Law
Free

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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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There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.
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Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.
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It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.
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To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.
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Every state begins in compulsion but the habits of obedience become the content of conscience, and soon every citizen thrills with loyalty to the flag. The citizen is right for however the state begins, it soon becomes an indispensable prop to order.
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Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game
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