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How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.

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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
Caused
Suffering
Death
Thought
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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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The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet.
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When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.
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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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Science tells us how to heal and how to kill it reduces our death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war but only wisdom - desire coordinated in the light of all experience - can tell us when to heal and when to kill.
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The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration varies (other factors being equal) with the economic freedom permitted by morals and laws.
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We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.
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So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.
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Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old.
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Civilizations come and go they conquer the earth and crumble into dust but faith survives every desolation.
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To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.
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